read a xls file
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:21 AM, Ian Jenkinson
<ian.jenkinson at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
I saw this about RODBC, but it seemed a complicated way of doing things, and in any case it seems that to run RODBC you need Excel 2004 or higher, which I would need to buy. One beautiful thing about R and OOo is that they are excellent and they cost nothing, so you don't have to buy, borrow or steal them.
read.xls in gdata does not require Excel and reads xls files directly on all R platforms.