While I don't disagree with what you say, the purpose of this is to interface to Excel which is even less free (you have to pay for Excel but not for dataload) so perhaps the status of the glue used between R and Excel is not as important.
>From an expediency viewpoint, I found that dataload solves a wide variety of interfacing problems easily, typically in a single line of code, using a single tool and consistent syntax. I can translate easily among .rda, .xls, .csv, .txt and numerous other formats. --- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:32:44 +0100 From: Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Summary: [R] How to represent pure linefeeds chr(10) under R for Windows >>>>> "Gabor" == Gabor Grothendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Thu, 6 Nov 2003 15:33:04 -0500 (EST) writes: Gabor> Its also possible to avoid these intricacies by not Gabor> using an intermediate text representation, i.e. csv, Gabor> in the first place. Gabor> The following R code uses the free dataload utility Gabor> (Google search for Baird dataload utility) to create Gabor> an .xls file from data frame, x: Gabor> save(x,file="x.rda") Gabor> system("dataload x.rda x.xls/u") Gabor> At this point you can read x.xls into Excel. Note that this has two "problems" IMO, which Jens' R-only solution does not have: 1) dataload is *not* free software in the sense of the Free Software Foundation (which has existed for a much longer time than MS windows!): It's only "free" as in "free beer", not "free" as in "free speech" . For more, read the "Free as in Freedom" main link on http://www.fsf.org/ 2) dataload is only available as *binary* on *some* platforms, as opposed to R which is available to everyone working with it :-) Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://stat.ethz.ch/~maechler/ Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum LEO C16 Leonhardstr. 27 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1228 <>< ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help