an R package for I/O of Microsoft Excel files
Ensure that the perl module Spreadsheet::WriteExcel is installed.
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Spreadsheet::WriteExcel"'
perl -MCPAN -e 'install "Excel::Writer::XLSX"'
Install the R package
install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("excelIO", "drmjc")
read.xls: imports a worksheet from an Excel (XLS/XLSX) file.
write.xls: writes matrix or data.frame objects, or a list of matrix or data.frames into worksheet(s) in an XLS file. It also formats the header row, and allows more control over how the row.names are written.
writeLines.xls writes vector's to excel files as 1-column tables, or as a 2-column table if the names=TRUE is specified.