XLConnect package Andrija On Jun 27, 2013 9:15 PM, "Spencer Graves" < spencer.gra...@structuremonitoring.com> wrote:
> Hello: > > > Is there a fully transportable way to write an Excel workbook? > > > The "writeFindFn2xls" function in the "sos" package attempts to write > search results to an Excel workbook consisting of (1) a summary of the > packages identified in the search, (2) the individual help pages found, and > (3) the search that produced 1 and 2. Unfortunately, for some time now, it > only works with 32-bit R; the 64-bit R writes this information to three > separate csv files. > > > The current code first tries WriteXLS{WriteXLS}. Unfortunately, this fails > on my computer, because it can't find the Perl module "Text::CSV_XS". I > don't see an easy fix to this. > > > If WriteXLS fails, the code then tries odbcConnectExcel{ODBC}. From this, > I get, "odbcConnectExcel is only usable with 32-bit Windows". That's OK, > but it means that I need to run all my searches on 32-bit R, and I usually > use 64-bit R. > > > I tried write.xls{dataframes2xls}. This put quotes around everything, > which I found unacceptable. > > > findFn('write.xls') identified a function by that name in the "marray" > package. Unfortunately, install.packages("marray") produced, "Warning > message: package marray is not available (for R version 3.0.1)" "???xls" > failed to produce anything else that looked to me like it would write a > complete workbook. > > > Suggestions? > Thanks, > Spencer Graves > > > > sessionInfo() > R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16) > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) > > locale: > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 > [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 > [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C > [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base > > other attached packages: > [1] RODBC_1.3-6 WriteXLS_2.3.1 sos_1.3-7 brew_1.0-6 > > ______________________________**________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-help<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help> > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/** > posting-guide.html <http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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