[R] Rcmdr importing excel files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, John Fox wrote:

> 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.

You don't just need the RODBC package, but also the MS ODBC drivers.
I'd be surprised if such drivers existed anywhere else, as they rely 
on Windows internals.

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