If there isn't multiple sheets you can use the 'gdata' package and
read.xls().

Otherwise you could re-save the file as a csv file and load that file with
read.csv() assuming not multiple sheets again which a csv cannot contain.

Regards,
Charles


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 8:01 AM, Charles Thuo <tcmuigai@gmail.com> wrote:

> how can one read data from MSEXcel into R especially in a case where one
> does not have administrator rights to install additional packages. In short
> how to read data from MSExcel into R with base packages only.
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