From nikko at hailmail.net  Mon Jan 17 22:24:02 2005
From: nikko at hailmail.net (Nicholas Lewin-Koh)
Date: Mon Jan 17 22:24:17 2005
Subject: [Rd] Excel files-suggested manual addition
Message-ID: <1105997042.4379.212944892@webmail.messagingengine.com>

Hi,
I had some excel files that I needed to read into R, there were alot so
I didn't want to
do them by hand in gnumeric. I tried all the recommendations in the data
import/export manuals, including RODBC,
and for some reason they all failed on these files. Then I stumbled on
ssconvert, a script that wraps
all gnumerics converters, see
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/doc/sect-files-ssconvert.html. I
would
suggest adding ssconvert to the import/export manual as an option for
excel files. It seems to be very robust.

Nicholas


[Rd] Excel files-suggested manual addition
Nicholas Lewin-Koh