不可能在R中加载“Excel 5.0 / 7.0（BIFF5）格式”文件

有很多方法可以在R中加载Excel文件，如下所示： http : //www.milanor.net/blog/?p=779

但是，我已经尝试了大部分的选项（RODBC，xlsx，gdata，XLConnect），并且不能让R加载这个由英国政府在2013年发布的特定文件：

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/npp/national-population-projections/2012-based-projections/rft-table-a3-4-principal-projection—england-population-single-今年的-age.xls

以下是我尝试失败的一个例子：

# save the file download.file("http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/npp/national-population-projections/2012-based-projections/rft-table-a3-4-principal-projection---england-population-single-year-of-age.xls", destfile = "input-data/future-pop-ons.xls") library(RODBC) XLConnect::readWorksheetFromFile(file = "input-data/future-pop-ons.xls", sheet = 3) ## Error: OldExcelFormatException (Java): The supplied spreadsheet seems to be Excel 5.0/7.0 (BIFF5) format. POI only supports BIFF8 format (from Excel versions 97/2000/XP/2003) library(XLConnect) XLConnect::readWorksheet("input-data/future-pop-ons.xls", sheet = 3) Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an inherited method for function 'readWorksheet' for signature '"character", "numeric"' library(gdata) read.xls(xls = "input-data/future-pop-ons.xls", sheet = 3) Use of uninitialized value $format in substitution (s///) at /home/robin/R/i686-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.1/gdata/perl/Spreadsheet/ParseExcel/Utility.pm line 183. 

将能够直接加载这种types的文件，确保可重复性是伟大的。

Answer 1

这适用于我在rocker/rstudio容器 ，我正在使用的高度隔离和可重复性：

 download.file("http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/npp/national-population-projections/2012-based-projections/rft-table-a3-4-principal-projection---england-population-single-year-of-age.xls", destfile = "future-pop-ons.xls", method = "wget") library(gdata) xx <- read.xls(xls = "future-pop-ons.xls", sheet = 3, fileEncoding="latin1") 

在控制台中有很多类似警告的输出，但是整个表单都是读入的，这是主要的。