Hey, some might not have excel, or some might get data in excel format on a
regular basis and want to put it into a regular/automated process. These
are all great solutions that I am glad are now in the list archive.

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Michael Hewson <m.hewson@uq.edu.au> wrote:

> At the risk of missing the big picture - wouldn't you just save from
> within excel as ascii txt?
>
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> r-sig-geo-bounces@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Tomislav Hengl
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> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] excel to ascii
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>
> I use the read.xls command from the gdata package [
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gdata/] to read XLS files to R.
> Works without a problem, but you need to get and locate Perl on your OS.
> Here is an example:
>
>  > library(gdata)
> ## perl <- gdata:::findPerl("perl")
> ## Did not work :(
>  > perl = "C:/Perl64/bin/perl.exe"
>  > prof <- read.xls("prof.xls", perl=perl)
>
>
> On 05/10/2012 14:34, alemante zd wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Is here anyway, (perhaps outside R) to convert an excel file into an
> > ascii one? I was trying to read one into R but I could not.
> > many thanks
> > minti
> >
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