Dear all, I have a problem with the function read.xls from the gdata package, error message see below. Two examples:
First, I try to read my data, which does not work; Secondly, I tried the example code/data with the Iris data, which worked Any idea? Thanks, Lars > path<-"I:/subProjects/bh/HPGD/" > > setwd(path) > > xls <- "Platten_Liste_090421.xls" > > xlsfile <- file.path(path,xls) > > file.exists(xlsfile) [1] TRUE > > > > oxl <- comCreateObject("Excel.Application") > > comSetProperty(oxl, "Visible", TRUE) NULL > > owb <- comGetProperty(oxl, "Workbooks") > > ob <- comInvoke(owb, "Open", xlsfile) > > osheets <- comGetProperty(ob, "Worksheets") > > n <- comGetProperty(osheets, "Count") > > ithSheetName <- function(i) comGetProperty(comGetProperty(osheets, "Item", > i), "Name") > > sheetNames <- sapply(1:n, ithSheetName) > > #> sheetNames > # [1] "Platten gesamt" "Platte 1-5" "Platte 6-10" > "Platte 11-15" "Platte 16-20" "Platte 21-25" > # [7] "Platte 26-30" "Platte 31-35" "Platte 36-42" > "Replikate Platte 1-10" "Replikate Platte 11-20" "Replikate Platte 21-30" > #[13] "Replikate Platte 31-42" > > > comInvoke(oxl, "Quit") NULL > > read.xls(xlsfile, sheetNames[1], na.strings = c("na"," ","."),verbose=TRUE) Converting xls file "I:/subProjects/bh/HPGD//Platten_Liste_090421.xls" to csv file "C:\DOKUME~1\beckmann\LOKALE~1\Temp\RtmpCU2zBu\file4db74d06.csv" ... Executing perl C:/Programme/R/R-2.8.1/library/gdata/perl/xls2csv.pl "I:/subProjects/bh/HPGD//Platten_Liste_090421.xls" "C:\DOKUME~1\beckmann\LOKALE~1\Temp\RtmpCU2zBu\file4db74d06.csv" Platten gesamt ... Sheetnumber must be an integer larger than 0. at C:/Programme/R/R-2.8.1/library/gdata/perl/xls2csv.pl line 57. Done. Fehler in xls2csv(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., perl = perl) : Unable to read translated csv file 'C:\DOKUME~1\beckmann\LOKALE~1\Temp\RtmpCU2zBu\file4db74d06.csv'. Fehler in file.exists(tfn) : ungültiges 'file' Argument > > xlsfile <- file.path(.path.package('gdata'),'xls','iris.xls') > xlsfile [1] "C:/Programme/R/R-2.8.1/library/gdata/xls/iris.xls" > > iris <- read.xls(xlsfile) Converting xls file to csv file... Done. Reading csv file... Done. > head(iris) # look at the top few rows Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa > -- Jetzt kostenlos herunterladen: Internet Explorer 8 und Mozilla Firefox 3 - sicherer, schneller und einfacher! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/chbrowser ______________________________________________ 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.