You need perl installed for it to work. Although you normally would not need to use them note the verbose= and perl= arguments on the read.xls command.
If you don't want to install perl try using RODBC: library(RODBC) z <- odbcConnectExcel("/a.xls") dd <- sqlFetch(z,"Sheet1") close(z) On 12/7/06, Lisa Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there, > > In gdata package, read.xls is to be used for reading excel data (from > windows). > The following is my code:('C:/session/sampledata.xls' is where the file > is stored) > > data1<-read.xls('C:/session/sampledata.xls',sheet=1) > > and I got the following error message: > Error in system(cmd, intern = !verbose) : perl not found > > Could you please tell me what I have done wrong and how I should do it? > > Thanks a lot > > Lisa Wang > Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ca > tel:416 946 4551 > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. > ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.