Re: [R] question about read.xls

Check out: http://wiki.r-project.org/rwiki/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:37 PM, jlfmssm wrote: > I am woking on Windows and using  read.xls to read Excel.xls file. > But it needs to install perl on my machine first, and then give the > following until it can work: >

[R] question about read.xls

I am woking on Windows and using read.xls to read Excel.xls file. But it needs to install perl on my machine first, and then give the following until it can work: read.xls(file,sheet=i,perl="E:\\Perl\\bin\\bin\\perl.exe"); I am wondering if there is other way to read Excel.xls file without needi