I do not promise much. But try to use XLConnect package. It requires rJava
package which requires java on your system.

Good luck
Orvalho

On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Edwin Isensee <edwin.isensee@gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm using the read.xls function from gdata package to read one Excel file,
> like the example below:
>
> library(gdata)
> my_file <- '/Users/Desktop/Project.xlsx'
> valores <- read.xls(my_file)
>
> The problem is: one of the columns at the Excel file holds date information
> like 1-Jan-13, 5-Jan-13, 25-Jan-13. At Excel these information are treated
> as dates. When I read the file into a dataframe the corresponding data
> frame column holds numeric information like 41275, 41279, 41299. How can I
> convert these numeric information into the original date information?
>
> Thanks,
> Edwin
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