Importing an Excel spreadsheet [SOLVED]

Hans-Peter wrote:

I am trying to import an *.xls spreadsheet into R. I am doing  
this as

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    Very steep learning curve ... so appreciate your help.


By looking at http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ->
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-data.pdf -> Chapter 8 Reading
Excel spreadsheets -> you can also find my package xlsReadWrite which
natively reads Excel files (Windows only).

Using *.csv file is probably the more common/recommended way but be
careful with 'cutted decimal places'.

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Regards,
Hans-Peter

Thanks Hans-Peter and Petr. I did use csv, but will probably, in  
future,
use Petr's suggestion about reading from the clipboard:

read.delim("clipboard")

Because as it so happens, there was way too much unnecessary data  
in the
spreadsheet. Plus I am using GNU/Linux, not Windows so some approaches
won't work.

I think this is now sorted.

Many thanks

Andy



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