Scionforbai wrote: > > I just wonder: why should R and its community try to support > such an awful program, with its protected formats and unmantained > features/bugs? > By such logic, why should R be ported to Windows? :-)
Short answer: because some of the data you want to use is writen in Excel by people who only knows how to write Excel spreadshits, and you want to automate the reading and interpretation of such data so that you, as a R user, does not have to use Excel to convert the data to text. Alberto Monteiro ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
