L.A.M.N.K » Econometrics http://www.lamnk.com/blog Free your mind ... and your ass will follow Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:52:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Import Excel .xls files into R http://www.lamnk.com/blog/econometrics/import-excel-xls-files-into-r/ http://www.lamnk.com/blog/econometrics/import-excel-xls-files-into-r/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:11:45 +0000 Lamnk http://www.lamnk.com/blog/?p=173
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    • ]]>     What is R ? R is a programming language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is developed by
    statisticians around the world and is free software, released under the GNU General Public License.

    In order to import .xls file into R, we must convert the file to csv first. One way to this is to open xls files in a speadsheet application and then export to csv format. Another way is to use a small convert program, handily available on … Google. An example: xls2csv:

    xls2csv -x dataset.xls -c dataset.csv

    After converting to csv, import data with

    > dataset1 <- read.csv(file = "~/dataset.csv")

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