Hans-Peter wrote:
> >> I am trying to import an *.xls spreadsheet into R. I am doing this as
> [snip]
>
>     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'.
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Hans-Peter 
Thanks Hans-Peter and Petr. I did use csv, but will probably, in future, 
use Petr's suggestion about reading from the clipboard:

read.delim("clipboard")

Because as it so happens, there was way too much unnecessary data in the 
spreadsheet. Plus I am using GNU/Linux, not Windows so some approaches 
won't work.

I think this is now sorted.

Many thanks

Andy



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