I do not promise much. But try to use XLConnect package. It requires rJava package which requires java on your system.
Good luck Orvalho On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Edwin Isensee <edwin.isen...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm using the read.xls function from gdata package to read one Excel file, > like the example below: > > library(gdata) > my_file <- '/Users/Desktop/Project.xlsx' > valores <- read.xls(my_file) > > The problem is: one of the columns at the Excel file holds date information > like 1-Jan-13, 5-Jan-13, 25-Jan-13. At Excel these information are treated > as dates. When I read the file into a dataframe the corresponding data > frame column holds numeric information like 41275, 41279, 41299. How can I > convert these numeric information into the original date information? > > Thanks, > Edwin > > [[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.