[R] Importing an Excel spreadsheet

[Bryan K Woods]

If you open the spreadsheet in Excel you can then do "Save as..." and 
select type CSV (comma-delimited text). Once you have the data in CSV 
format, you can use the R function read.csv to import the data.

Cheers,
Bryan

andy wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to import an *.xls spreadsheet into R. I am doing this as 
> follows:
>
>  > read.table(file("A5_DL.xls"))
>
> But obtain the error:
>
> Error in type.convert(data[[i]], as.is = as.is[i], dec = dec, na.strings 
> = character(0)) :
> invalid multibyte string at '?????'
>
> So I copied it all over to a text document and tried to import that, thus:
>  > read.table("A5.txt")
>
> The error I got then was:
>
> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, 
> na.strings, :
> line 26 did not have 34 elements
>
> Having gone over the line in question, it all seems to be the same as 
> any other row. I really don't want to have to manually re-enter the data 
> (some 98 rows x 26 columns).
>
> Can someone advise me on what I am overlooking here please.
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
>   

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