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Message-ID: <20080310160335.GB27511@lubyanka.local>
Date: 2008-03-10T16:03:35Z
From: Ajay Shah
Subject: Reading microsoft .xls format and openoffice OpenDocument files
In-Reply-To: <39B6DDB9048D0F4DAD42CB26AAFF0AFA055E5CC7@usctmx1106.merck.com>

> 1: Why not try the XLSReadWrite package that can do it natively without
> using Perl to convert to CSV first?

I looked at the package (it's
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsReadWrite/index.html) but
it's windows only. So no joy yet.

> 2: There seems to be an Ooo extension that sounds similar to R-Excel
> (connecting R to Calc).  Not sure if that helps you any though.

I wasn't able to locate this. Could you please describe this further?

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