library(RODBC)
z <- odbcConnectExcel("c:/myfolder/mydata.xls")
myframe <- sqlFetch(z, "Sheet1")
close(z)Are you indicating the name of the worksheet you want within the *.xls file? I suspect there could be additional issues on a non-Windows OS that I don't know about.
hope this helps,
Chuck Cleland
Rolf Turner wrote:
I gather from reading the back-issues of r-help that it should be possible (modulo a number of caveats) to read an excel (yuck!) file into R using RODBC. I have obtained and installed ODBC and the RODBC package, but cannot for the life of me figure out how to go about it. Can anyone give me a simple recipe?
I have an excel file on cdrom, say:
/mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls
I have started R and loaded the RODBC package. I want to create a data frame ``melvin'' by reading in /mnt/cdrom/melvin.xls. What (in monosyllables --- step by step) do I do next?
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