How to use read.xls in R
You need perl installed for it to work.
Although you normally would not need to use them note the
verbose= and perl= arguments on the read.xls command.
If you don't want to install perl try using RODBC:
library(RODBC)
z <- odbcConnectExcel("/a.xls")
dd <- sqlFetch(z,"Sheet1")
close(z)
On 12/7/06, Lisa Wang <lisawang at uhnres.utoronto.ca> wrote:
Hello there,
In gdata package, read.xls is to be used for reading excel data (from
windows).
The following is my code:('C:/session/sampledata.xls' is where the file
is stored)
data1<-read.xls('C:/session/sampledata.xls',sheet=1)
and I got the following error message:
Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not found
Could you please tell me what I have done wrong and how I should do it?
Thanks a lot
Lisa Wang
Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ca
tel:416 946 4551
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