Message-ID: <BCEE056A-F684-4E0D-95C1-775E26B733C3@mac.com>
Date: 2008-03-10T19:33:41Z
From: Gregory R. Warnes
Subject: Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files
In-Reply-To: <20080307111759.GE27511@lubyanka.local>
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) ?
>
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