reading data from Excel Spread sheet

There are many answers to this in R but some considerations are

- what platform are you using?
- do you have access to Excel or only to the spreadsheet itself?  If you
have access to Excel is it on the same machine as R?
- is it an Excel 2003 spreadsheet (.xls) or Excel 2007 spreadsheet (.xlsx)?
- is this a one time transfer of a particular data set or will you be
transferring
numerous similar spreadsheets?
- is the spreadsheet located on your computer or does it have to be fetched
from the internet or some other place?

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 4:32 AM, venkata kirankumar

Hi all,

I tried to read data from Excel spread sheet with using

read.csv(file.choose())
and
read.delim(file.choose())
but its showing                    " *??.?.*."

and also i tried with
read.table(file.choose())

then its showing             "   *      V1
                                       1 ??\021???*   "


can any one suggest how to read data from Excel Spread sheet

thanks & regards;

kiran

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