[R] RODBC Package

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Stephan Freyberger wrote:

> Hello R-Help,
>
> is there any way of using the RODBC Package on a Mac OS X
> System? If yes, what do I need to get it running. Concerning these
> issues, I am pretty unexperienced, so please state any step
> necessary. The actual problem is accessing data in Excel- files.
> (unfortunately no alternative way of entering the data).
> I already installed the Package, but it says the following:
>
>> versuch <- odbcConnectExcel("Thermanali-Versuch.xls")
> Error: couldn't find function "odbcConnectExcel"

As the documentation says very clearly, odbcConnectExcel is only available 
on Windows.

Do you have an Excel ODBC driver?  If so, set up a DSN to point it at the 
file you want and call odbcConnect() with that DSN.

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