The package is actually gdata, which I hadn't heard of before Don's  
post (thanks Don). The package is available on CRAN.

Dan

On 12-Jan-06, at 10:54 AM, Don MacQueen wrote:

> Another option, that I personally prefer, is read.xls(), from a
> package whose name I don't have available at the moment. Might be
> 'foreign'.
>
> I have used it only when the data in the spreadsheet starts in the
> upper left-hand cell (A1), but in that case it works very well.
>
> -Don
>
> At 11:03 AM -0500 1/10/06, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>> 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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