| read-xls {fImport} | R Documentation |
Reads a sheet from an xls file.
read.xls(url, sheet=1, lines=-1, verbose=FALSE, encoding="unknown")
url |
a character string specifying the URL of the web page. |
sheet |
an integer denoting which sheet should be extracted, by default the first. |
lines |
a negative integer with the lines to be skipped, by default the first. |
verbose |
a logical decides about verbose mode, by default FALSE. |
encoding |
a character string with the type of encoding, by
defaul |
the downloaded text.
Diethelm Wuertz, Yohan Chalabi, and Andrew Ellis, (2010); Financial Market Data for R/Rmetrics, Rmetrics eBook, Rmetrics Association and Finance Online, Zurich, www.rmetrics.org.