I don't know the answer to your question, but I avoid these problems by saving my data as csv and avoiding direct interaction with Excel files. Excel is NOT a database, even though it has supposed support through ODBC. I find this holds true regardless of the programming environment from which I try to access Excel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Newmiller The ..... ..... Go Live... DCN:<jdnew...@dcn.davis.ca.us> Basics: ##.#. ##.#. Live Go... Live: OO#.. Dead: OO#.. Playing Research Engineer (Solar/Batteries O.O#. #.O#. with /Software/Embedded Controllers) .OO#. .OO#. rocks...1k --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
Val <valkr...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi all, I am trying to read Excel file usingthe follwoing commnad library(RODBC) data=odbcConnectExcel(file.choose()) sqlTables(data) Bdat=sqlFetch(data, "test") odbcClose(data) head(Bdat) 1. The above script works if the Excel file is opened. If the excel file is not opened then I get the following message "External table is not in the expected format" and it stops. 2. Instead of "(file.choose())" I wanted to use the following command data <- read.table('G:/test.xlsx", header=T) But it did not work again. Warning message: In read.table("G:/test.xlsx", header = T) : incomplete final line found by readTableHeader on 'G:/test.xlsx' Did I miss something there? Your help is highly appreciated Val [[alternative HTML version deleted]]_____________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.