[R] Reading Excel files from within R.

Yves Gauvreau cyg at sympatico.ca
Thu Jan 11 12:54:16 CET 2001



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> De : owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:owner-r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch]De la part de Alexandre Fayolle
> Envoye : Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:34 AM
> A : r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Objet : RE: [R] Reading Excel files from within R.
>
>
> On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Yves Gauvreau wrote:
>
> > Maybe a much simpler approach would be to use a vbscript | jscript |
> > perl-script. Any of these is Ole aware and you could write an R
> function to
> > run your script which would extract the data you want, put it
> in a file that
> > R can read back. That is the quickest and easiest expedient you
> could use to
> > control everything from R.
>
> I heard that R was Python-aware. Python on windows has some COM modules
> that could be used to do just that without changing R.
>

I forgot, if it's just reading and writing Excel files you want RODBC is
every thing you nead.

YG

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