Hello:
What should I do regarding code to write an Excel file in a
non-Windows platform?
The "sos" package [new version of "RSiteSearch"] on R-Forge
includes "writeFindFn2xls", which starts with "require(RODBC)". The
next line calls "odbcConnectExcel". This works under Window
On 9 August 2009 at 12:04, spencerg wrote:
| What should I do regarding code to write an Excel file in a
| non-Windows platform?
[...]
| What would you suggest we do about this?
[...]
| If there is a better way to handle this, I would like to know.
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Instead of writing out an xls file you could write out a file
in any format that Excel can read, e.g. csv, with a suitable
renaming of your function.
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:04 PM, spencerg wrote:
> Hello:
>
> What should I do regarding code to write an Excel file in a non-Windows
> platform?
Dear Marc:
In spite of your efforts to help me, I still get an "F" in your
"WriteXLS" class. Consider the following:
> library(WriteXLS)
> help(pac=WriteXLS)
> testPerl()
Perl found.
The following Perl modules were not found on this system:
Text::CSV_XS
If you have more than one P
Dear Gabor:
Good suggestion. I will probably do that if "WriteXLS" is not
installed or if it is but "testPerl()" is FALSE.
Thanks,
Spencer
Gabor Grothendieck wrote:
Instead of writing out an xls file you could write out a file
in any format that Excel can read, e.g. csv, wit
Hi Spencer,
Unfortunately, the two Perl modules in question, Text::CSV_XS and
Encode, are not pure Perl modules as they contain C code.
This means that the modules need to be compiled either beforehand as a
pre-packaged binary or during installation, both for the Perl version
that is inst
