Hello I am trying to import an *.xls spreadsheet into R. I am doing this as follows:
> read.table(file("A5_DL.xls")) But obtain the error: Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, na.strings = character(0)) : invalid multibyte string at '?????' So I copied it all over to a text document and tried to import that, thus: > read.table("A5.txt") The error I got then was: Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, : line 26 did not have 34 elements Having gone over the line in question, it all seems to be the same as any other row. I really don't want to have to manually re-enter the data (some 98 rows x 26 columns). Can someone advise me on what I am overlooking here please. Thanks Andy -- "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow" ______________________________________________ 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.