[R-SIG-Mac] paste data into R

Simon Urbanek simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Tue Jan 10 17:03:03 CET 2006


On Jan 10, 2006, at 3:27 AM, Andrew Beckerman wrote:

> Sylvain/Simon -
>
> Is it worth pointing out that read.csv("path/to/file.csv") will  
> read the excel data in directly (as a saved as a csv file that is),  
> without resorting to the clipboard and copy/paste mode?
>

Well I would think that such work-around is obvious and unless you  
happen to already have such a file it's more clumsy. (Personally, I  
avoid the use of csv because Excel loves to screw it up depending on  
your locale settings).

Cheers,
Simon



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