[R-sig-teaching] issues with importing

[Christopher Desjardins]

I believe you can import excel files via the foreign package. As was suggested saving the file as .csv would allow you to import directly via read.csv. If you're new to R you should read the docs on cran. They are very good.

jim holtman <jholtman at gmail.com> wrote:

>What exactly are you trying to do with Excel?  Have you tried
>exporting as CSV and then using 'read.csv' in R?  Exactly what error
>message are you getting and what statements were you executing.
>
>To create your matrix, use 'matrix',
>
>On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Anna Supady <statistics2020 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>> I am a new R user. Not everything goes so easy. I have many questions. I
>> believe that this is the place where one can discuss issue in R programing.
>> I cannot get excel file open using file location. Only note pad works but
>> some data is in excel. How can I do that? Also, I need to create MATRIX OF
>> DIMENSIONS nxn. I am not sure how to do that.
>>
>> Thanks for help,
>> Ania
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>What is the problem that you are trying to solve?
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