[R] write.xls

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Gabor Grothendieck
<ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Spencer Graves
> <spencer.graves at structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
>> Hello, All:
>>
>>
>>      The "writeFindFn2xls" function in the "sos" package tries to write an
>> Excel file with 3 sheets ('PackageSum2', 'findFn', 'call'). Unfortunately,
>> it is often unable to do this because of configuration problems that are not
>> easy to fix.  I've found 3 contributed packages that provide facilities to
>> write Excel files with multiple sheets. Unfortunately, I can't get any of
>> them to work consistently for me. Below please find test cases that
>> illustrate the problems.  Any suggestions for how to solve this problem will
>> be appreciated.
>>
>>
>>      Thanks,
>>      Spencer
>>
>>
>> library(dataframes2xls)
>>
>> df1 <- data.frame(c1=1:2, c2=3:4, c3=5:6)
>> df2 <- data.frame(c21=c(10.10101010101,20, 3), c22=c(50E50,60, 3) )
>> outFile <- 'df12.xls'
>>
>> write.xls(c(df1,df2), outFile)
>> # works
>>
>> do.call(write.xls, list(c(df1, df2), outFile))
>> # Error in get(s[i]) : object 'structure(list(c1=1:2' not found
>>
>
> Try this:
>
> dd <- list(df1 = df1, df2 = df2)
> do.call("WriteXLS", list("dd", outFile))
>
> or this:
>
> do.call("WriteXLS", list(c("df1", "df2"), outFile)
>

That was for WriteXLS.  For dataframes2xls try this:

do.call("write.xls", list(quote(c(df1, df2)), outFile))

and also check out this page:

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows


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