[R] EXCEL FILE
    Peter Dalgaard BSA 
    p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
       
    Thu May  8 21:10:13 CEST 2003
    
    
  
Joel Kincaid <jfkincaidsu at netscape.net> writes:
> Use 'save as' in excel to create 'foo.csv' and then
> 
> read.csv(file='foo.csv',sep',',header=T)
Those are the defaults... read.csv(file='foo.csv') should do. Use
header=FALSE if the header is absent. Notice also that in some
locales, CSV files have "," for decimal separator and ";" for the
value. That's where read.csv2 is relevant.
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