Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-18 Thread MacQueen, Don
Besides what others have suggested, there are at some packages for writing Excel files directly, and either of those might have a way to write something that Excel will recognize as a hyperlink. xlsx, XLConnect are both Java-based; I would start with these. -Don -- Don MacQueen Lawrence Liverm

Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-16 Thread Marc Girondot
Le 16/03/13 15:42, Jeff Newmiller a écrit : What Excel does or does not recognize as a url in any particular instance is up to Excel. The CSV format itself has no concept of markup that would allow you to convey this idea. HTML does, and I think Excel can import HTML, but I have never tried in

Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-16 Thread Jeff Newmiller
What Excel does or does not recognize as a url in any particular instance is up to Excel. The CSV format itself has no concept of markup that would allow you to convey this idea. HTML does, and I think Excel can import HTML, but I have never tried intentionally using HTML as a data exchange form

Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-16 Thread Brian Smith
Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. The question is whether it is possible to write some text (with a hyperlink) to a csv file, such that when you open the file in excel, it shows the text as hyperlinked. I guess it boils down to whether there are any 'tags' that you can put in the csv/txt file so tha

Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-16 Thread Marc Girondot
Le 15/03/13 12:53, Brian Smith a écrit : Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to create a hyperlink in a csv file using R code and some package. For example, in the following code: links <- cbind(rep('Click for Google',3),"google search address goes here") ## R Mailing list blocks if I put the

Re: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-15 Thread John Kane
> To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file > > Hi, > > I was wondering if it is possible to create a hyperlink in a csv file > using > R code and some package. For example, in the following code: > > links <- cbind(rep('Cli

[R] Writing a hyperlink to a csv file

2013-03-15 Thread Brian Smith
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to create a hyperlink in a csv file using R code and some package. For example, in the following code: links <- cbind(rep('Click for Google',3),"google search address goes here") ## R Mailing list blocks if I put the actual web address here write.table(links,