Excel File opened under Ubuntu, read by R, OpenOffice

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Published on 2011-01-09T14:34:43Z Indexed on 2011/01/09 16:53 UTC
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I have a bunch of Excel files which are updated on a daily basis on a Windows machine. I transfer them to a Ubuntu machine and want to open them there. Specifically, I want to read the files as a database under R.

A couple years ago, I used ODBC under a Windows machine to open Excel files through R. Is there any way, I can do this with R under Ubuntu?

I could make a database .ODB file for the corresponding XLS files using OpenOffice, but I don't know of a way to connect to a .ODB database. OpenOffice seems to have ways to connect TO databases, but no way to connect to ODB.

Thanks for any potential solutions.

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