Have you looked at RDCOMClient? I would imagine you could do what you want with this package.
http://www.omegahat.org/RDCOMClient/ Best, Jim Hin-Tak Leung wrote: > I don't know of any native xls read/write facility in R, either > in core or as add-ons (I could be wrong), but if you want some source > code to scavenge on to build some R package out of it, there are two > perl modules, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel and Spreadsheet::WriteExcel > which are small enough to "read from front cover to back cover", > so to speak, might be useful for reference and steal code from. > > The other open-source packages which can read/write excel files > are gnumeric and openoffice and probably too big to find one's way > around the source code to steal there :-). > > Good luck. > > HTL > > Mark W Kimpel wrote: > >>Hans-Peter and other R developers, >> >>How are you? Have you made any progess with embedding Url's in Excel? >> >>Well, I have been busy thinking of more things for you to do;) >> >>My colleagues in the lab are not R literate, and some are barely >>computer literate, so I give them everything in Excel workbooks. I have >>gradually evolved a system such that these workbooks have become >>compendia of my data, output, and methods. That, in fact, is why I >>bought the Pro version of xlsReadWritePro. I have been saving graphics >>as PDF files, then inserting them as object in Excel sheets. >> >>What I would like to be able to do is to embed objects (files) in sheets >>of a workbook directly from within R. I would also like to be able to >>save my current R workspace as an object embedded in a sheet so that in >>the future, if packages change, I could go back and recreate the >>analysis. I do not need to be able to manuipulate files that R has not >>created, like a PDF file from another user. I would, however, like to be >>able to save my graphics as PDF files inside a worksheet, even if it >>meant creating a temp file or something. >> >>Before people begin talking about how MySQL or some other database could >>handle all that archiving, let me say that that is not what my >>colleagues want. They want a nice Excel file that they can take home on >>there laptops. One thing I like about worksheets is that they themselves >>can contain many embedded files, so it keeps our virtual desks neater >>and less confusing. >> >>Hans, if you could do this, it would be of tremendous benefit to me and >>hopefully a lot of people. R developers tend to think that all >>scientists are running Linux on 64-bit computers, but most biomedical >>researches still store date in Excel files. This won't solve everybody's >>needs, but it could be a start. >> >>Well, let me know what you think. I am cc'ing R-devel to see if any of >>those guys have ideas as well. >> >>Thanks, >>Mark >> >> >> > > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ********************************************************** Electronic Mail is not secure, may not be read every day, and should not be used for urgent or sensitive issues. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel