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Albert-Jan Roskam wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As a work-around, you could use the CRAN R package XLConnect, using
> RPy or RPy2, to do what you want. IIRC it's based on Java, so it's not
> extremely fast.
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/XLConnect/vignettes/XLConnect.pdf
> This is another package I just saw for the first time
> 
> http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/xlsx/xlsx.pdf
> 
> Regards,
> Albert-Jan

hi,

many thanks for the suggestions but i've already implemented
an alternative using perl and its Spreadsheet::XLSX module.

cheers,
raf