On 25-May-10 11:12:30, mau...@alice.it wrote: > I have attached a file downloaded from database mirWalk. > Apparently it is in XLS format (this is the extension of the > downloaded file). > However, I cannot open it with OpenOffife spreadsheet program > and Excel itself cannot separate the columns as it does when > a true XLS file is loaded. > > I tried to read the attached downloaded file through R function > "read.xls" and got the following message > >> read.xls("Prostatic_Neoplasm-miRNAs.Disease-GenesTargets.xls") > Error in xls2sep(xls, sheet, verbose = verbose, ..., method = method, >: > Unable to read translated csv file > '/tmp/RtmpPIe3vo/file15d9580e.csv'. > Error in file.exists(tfn) : invalid 'file' argument > > I have tried reading the file through "read.table" which has > now been hanging for more than 15 minutes. > > Please, advice. > Thank you in advance. > Maura
Maura, your attachment did not reach the list (with a few exceptions, such as PDF, attachments are generally discarded). Can you post a URL from which that file can be downloaded, so that we can try for ourselves? Thanks, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.hard...@manchester.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 25-May-10 Time: 12:29:35 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ ______________________________________________ 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.