Interfacing excel or openoffice can be done using com interface, but the technology is windows specific.
openoffice also supports interface to python, but can't be called from J directly. Another approach is to parse an excel workbook directly from J and then write back changes to the file. But this involves lots of work. On Tue, Jan 5, 2021, 11:40 PM Justin Paston-Cooper <paston.coo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I don't know much Excel, and I know some J. The dataflow aspect of > Excel excites me, and I am averse to GUI programming. > https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Articles/JExcel details how to > integrate J with Excel. I don't know how up-to-date this is. > > Because I run Linux, it would be difficult for me to run Excel. Are > there any interesting alternatives that would enable me to quickly > build interfaces involving dataflow? I couldn't find anything on using > Libreoffice Calc. > > Thanks in advance, > > Justin > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
