I can use gdata to successfully read in the example Excel file, but not any
other excel files. Why might this be the case? It seems that the problem
has something to do with opening the database but no indication as to what
the problem is. So i'm at a loss of how to fix it.


> library(gdata)
gdata: read.xls support for 'XLS' (Excel 97-2004) files ENABLED.
gdata: read.xls support for 'XLSX' (Excel 2007+) files ENABLED.

<snip>

> test <- read.xls("C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/xls/ExampleExcelFile.xlsx",
verbose=T)
Using perl at C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe
Using perl at C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe

Converting xls file
    “C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/xls/ExampleExcelFile.xlsx”
to csv  file
    “C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bccd743d36.csv”
...

Executing ' "C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/perl/
xls2csv.pl" "C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/xls/ExampleExcelFile.xlsx"
"C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bccd743d36.csv" "1" '...

Loading 'C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/xls/ExampleExcelFile.xlsx'...
Done.

Orignal Filename: C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/xls/ExampleExcelFile.xlsx
Number of Sheets: 4

Writing sheet number 1 ('Sheet First') to file
'C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bccd743d36.csv'
Minrow=0 Maxrow=7 Mincol=0 Maxcol=2

0

Done.

Reading csv file
 “C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bccd743d36.csv” ...
Done.

This tells me that perl can be found, used, and my local temp directory can
be written/read to just fine. Now to try to read one of my own files.


> test <- read.xls("C:/Dropbox/Animals/LARPBO/Database.xlsx", verbose=T)
Using perl at C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe
Using perl at C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe

Converting xls file
    “C:/Dropbox/Animals/LARPBO/Database.xlsx”
to csv  file
    “C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bcc2cfe7499.csv”
...

Executing ' "C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/perl/
xls2csv.pl" "C:/Dropbox/Animals/LARPBO/Database.xlsx"
"C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bcc2cfe7499.csv" "1"
'...

Unable to open file 'C:/Dropbox/Animals/LARPBO/Database.xlsx'.
2

Done.

Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method,  :
  Intermediate file
'C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bcc2cfe7499.csv' missing!
In addition: Warning message:
running command '"C:\Perl64\bin\perl.exe" "C:/Dropbox/R/library/gdata/perl/
xls2csv.pl" "C:/Dropbox/Animals/LARPBO/Database.xlsx"
"C:\Users\Robin\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpWkmGgn\file1bcc2cfe7499.csv" "1"'
had status 2
Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument

So it appears that it's a problem with the original Excel file. But there's
nothing that tells me what the problem actually is.

Thanks
-Robin Jeffries

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