[R] there is no "xls" reader in R?

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See:

http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/doc/manual/R-data.html#Reading-Excel-spreadsheets

Also the RDCOMClient package (find it via google) and rcom (on CRAN)
can control Excel from R and can be used.

On 4/19/06, Michael <comtech.usa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Currently I have to convert all my "xls" into "csv" before I can read it in
> and process the excel data in R...
>
> Is there a way to directly read in "xls" data?
>
> Thanks a lot!
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