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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101110932290.963-100000@leo.logilab.fr>
Date: 2001-01-11T08:34:17Z
From: Alexandre Fayolle
Subject: Reading Excel files from within R.
In-Reply-To: <NEBBJKDJHEFCOOLFFAKKIEFOCAAA.cyg@sympatico.ca>

On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Yves Gauvreau wrote:

> Maybe a much simpler approach would be to use a vbscript | jscript |
> perl-script. Any of these is Ole aware and you could write an R function to
> run your script which would extract the data you want, put it in a file that
> R can read back. That is the quickest and easiest expedient you could use to
> control everything from R.

I heard that R was Python-aware. Python on windows has some COM modules
that could be used to do just that without changing R. 


Alexandre Fayolle
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