xlsReadWrite package repository for Ubuntu
On 4/03/2009, at 2:38 AM, Marc Schwartz wrote:
You perhaps missed the key point in Uwe's response, which is that the package is only available under Windows, as it depends upon Windows specific functionality (MS Office API via a third party library which is available for Windows only) to natively read and write Excel files. Thus, there is no package version available for Linux, or OSX for that matter. If you need to read Excel files under Linux, you could look at the read.xls() function in the 'gdata' CRAN package. This package requires that Perl be installed, as it calls a Perl routine (xls2csv) for converting the Excel file to a CSV file, which can then be read into R. If you need to write Excel files under Linux, you can use a Perl routine that I had posted back in 2007: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2007-July/135968.html and have updated since then to handle Unicode issues. I am attaching a 2k text file here with the updated routine.
For those needing to write *.xls files as well as read them, the
write.xls
function in the package dataframes2xls might be useful. I have no
actual
experience in using it, but.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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