[R] read multiple sheets of excel data into R

[jim holtman]

Try the 'openxlsx' package.  I gave up using XLConnect because of the Java
requirement, and speed on larger tables. "openxlsx" has the access routines
written in C so you don't need any other outside dependencies.


Jim Holtman
Data Munger Guru

What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
Tell me what you want to do, not how you want to do it.

On Sat, May 28, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us>
wrote:

> Apparently you need to get your Java runtime setup, or install Perl,
> depending which of these tools you want to use.
>
> Or if your data are laid out simply, you might be able to use the readxl
> package.
> --
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
>
> On May 28, 2016 10:55:50 AM PDT, li li <hannah.hlx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >I tried to use the package "XLConnect" to read excel data into R.  I
> >got
> >the following error message:
> >
> >Error : .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'rJava', details:
> >  call: fun(libname, pkgname)
> >  error: No CurrentVersion entry in Software/JavaSoft registry! Try
> >re-installing Java and make sure R and Java have matching
> >architectures.
> >
> >
> >  I tried read.xls and got the following error  message:
> >
> >> library(gdata)> one <- read.xls ("one.xlsx", sheet=1)Error in
> >findPerl(verbose = verbose) :
> >  perl executable not found. Use perl= argument to specify the correct
> >path.Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument
> >
> >
> >  Can anyone give me some input on this?
> >  Thanks.
> >    Hanna
> >
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