[R] Import from excel 2007

[hadley wickham]

On 10/16/07, Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:38 +0100, Arnold Akem wrote:
> > Hey Seniors,
> >
> >   Really new to R, please has anyone imported a dataset from MS office
> > excel 2007 into R yet? It seem to be giving me hard times which I did
> > not expect as it use to go well with the previous versions.
> >
> >   Thanks in advance.
> >   arnoldo
>
>
> Office 2007 is using a new format (.xlsx, .docx, etc.) that is not yet
> compatible with most applications (including OpenOffice), since MS does
> not document it.

It is documented, but the spec is ~1,200 pages so implementing it is
the hard part.

Hadley


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