[R] Rcmdr importing excel files

[John Fox]

Dear John and Stephen,

As I recall, importing from Excel, Access, or dBase files works properly
only under Windows, and consequently the menu item appears only in Windows
systems. I frankly don't recall why this is the case, since the RODBC
package is used. The code for reading these kinds of files was contributed
by Matthieu Lesnoff, to whom I'm copying this response. Maybe he'll have a
more complete answer.

Regards,
 John

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John Fox, Professor
Department of Sociology
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada L8S 4M4
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http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox

> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of John Kane
> Sent: February-26-08 5:27 PM
> To: stephen sefick; r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: Re: [R] Rcmdr importing excel files
> 
> I'm on Windows XP R 2.6.2
> The command
> Data > Import > From Excel, Access etc
> Supply data.frame name
> Select xls file and then select the sheet seem to work
> for me
> 
> What is not showing?
> --- stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I am using R 2.6.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.9-  I would like
> > to import excel
> > files into R with Rcmdr, but This option does not
> > present itself in
> > the file menu.  Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Stephen
> >
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