>> I am trying to import an *.xls spreadsheet into R. I am doing this as
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> Very steep learning curve ... so appreciate your help.


By looking at http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ->
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf -> Chapter 8 Reading Excel
spreadsheets -> you can also find my package xlsReadWrite which natively
reads Excel files (Windows only).

Using *.csv file is probably the more common/recommended way but be careful
with 'cutted decimal places'.

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Regards,
Hans-Peter

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