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> The best way to read or write Excel files is with the RExcel package.  The


Well, I'd argue, that often 'the best way' is to use the xlsReadWrite
package, but I am biased...

There are some precondition:
- you have to be on windows (but my new soon-to-arrive notebook will be a
Mac, therefore...)
- it reads and write in the Excel 97-2003 xls format (BIFF8).
  (With Excel 2007 you'd have to choose the compatibility mode for now and
thus fall back to the 65536 rows and 256 columns limit).

Regards,
Hans-Peter

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