write.xls

Hello, All:


     The "writeFindFn2xls" function in the "sos" package tries to write an Excel file with 3 sheets ('PackageSum2', 'findFn', 'call'). Unfortunately, it is often unable to do this because of configuration problems that are not easy to fix.  I've found 3 contributed packages that provide facilities to write Excel files with multiple sheets. Unfortunately, I can't get any of them to work consistently for me. Below please find test cases that illustrate the problems.  Any suggestions for how to solve this problem will be appreciated.


     Thanks,
     Spencer


library(dataframes2xls)

df1 <- data.frame(c1=1:2, c2=3:4, c3=5:6)
df2 <- data.frame(c21=c(10.10101010101,20, 3), c22=c(50E50,60, 3) )
outFile <- 'df12.xls'

write.xls(c(df1,df2), outFile)
# works

do.call(write.xls, list(c(df1, df2), outFile))
# Error in get(s[i]) : object 'structure(list(c1=1:2' not found

library(WriteXLS)
testPerl()
#Perl found.
#The following Perl modules were not found on this system:
#Text::CSV_XS
#If you have more than one Perl installation, be sure the correct one was used here.
#Otherwise, please install the missing modules. See the package INSTALL file for more information.

# *** NOTE:  I may be able to fix this for myself.
# *** However, I want to use this in the 'sos' package,
# *** and if it doesn't work easily for me, it may not work for others.

library(RODBC)
xlsFile <- odbcConnectExcel(outFile, readOnly=FALSE)
# NOTE:  This works with R 2.15.0 32-bit.
# However, with 64-bit, I get the following error message here:
# Error in odbcConnectExcel(outFile, readOnly = FALSE) :
#   odbcConnectExcel is only usable with 32-bit Windows

# When this works, the following 3 lines of code
#    suffice to create the outFile:
sqlSave(xlsFile, df1, tablename='sheet1')
sqlSave(xlsFile, df2, tablename='sheet2')
odbcClose(xlsFile)

sessionInfo()
#R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
#Platform: x86_64-pc-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

#locale:
#[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252
#[2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
#[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
#[4] LC_NUMERIC=C
#[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

#attached base packages:
#[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

#other attached packages:
#[1] RODBC_1.3-5          WriteXLS_2.1.0       dataframes2xls_0.4.5



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