[R] create a matrix from an excel file?

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "TS" == Tavpritesh Sethi <tavpritesh at gmail.com>
>>>>>     on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:59:03 +0530 writes:

    TS> how do you create a matrix from an excel file read into
    TS> R by the command read.delim?

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as.matrix(.) }