XLConnect package
Andrija
On Jun 27, 2013 9:15 PM, "Spencer Graves" <
spencer.graves@structuremonitoring.com> wrote:

> Hello:
>
>
> Is there a fully transportable way to write an Excel workbook?
>
>
> The "writeFindFn2xls" function in the "sos" package attempts to write
> search results to an Excel workbook consisting of (1) a summary of the
> packages identified in the search, (2) the individual help pages found, and
> (3) the search that produced 1 and 2. Unfortunately, for some time now, it
> only works with 32-bit R; the 64-bit R writes this information to three
> separate csv files.
>
>
> The current code first tries WriteXLS{WriteXLS}. Unfortunately, this fails
> on my computer, because it can't find the Perl module "Text::CSV_XS". I
> don't see an easy fix to this.
>
>
> If WriteXLS fails, the code then tries odbcConnectExcel{ODBC}. From this,
> I get, "odbcConnectExcel is only usable with 32-bit Windows". That's OK,
> but it means that I need to run all my searches on 32-bit R, and I usually
> use 64-bit R.
>
>
> I tried write.xls{dataframes2xls}. This put quotes around everything,
> which I found unacceptable.
>
>
> findFn('write.xls') identified a function by that name in the "marray"
> package. Unfortunately, install.packages("marray") produced, "Warning
> message: package ‘marray’ is not available (for R version 3.0.1)" "???xls"
> failed to produce anything else that looked to me like it would write a
> complete workbook.
>
>
> Suggestions?
> Thanks,
> Spencer Graves
>
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>
> other attached packages:
> [1] RODBC_1.3-6 WriteXLS_2.3.1 sos_1.3-7 brew_1.0-6
>
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