Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files
Hello Ajay, I'm the author of the gdata package. If you send me a copy of an .XLS file that doesn't work with read.xls(), I'll see about fixing the code. -Greg
On Mar 7, 2008, at 6:17AM , Ajay Shah wrote:
1. I have used gdata::read.xls() with much happiness. But every now and then it breaks. I have not, as yet, been able to construct a mental model about the class of .xls files for which it works. Does someone have a simple rule for predicting the circumstances under which it will work? 2. Just like there is a read.xls(), it'd be great if we have a read.ods() which directly reads files from openoffice. This should be easier than grokking Microsoft formats given that openoffice is gpl. I hunted a bit and couldn't find any. Does someone know how we might approach this? Am I correct in thinking that our goal is reading OpenDocument files (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument) ? -- Ajay Shah http://www.mayin.org/ ajayshah ajayshah at mayin.org http:// ajayshahblog.blogspot.com <*(:-? - wizard who doesn't know the answer.
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