Introduction

Ever since I have read the refresher of Tjalling Jager on differential equations and likelihood functions, I have been irritated about the common way to express the likelihood of data following a normal distribution using the density function of the normal distribution. The statement that made me wonder was …

This is a short note about reading tables from common office document formats into R.

xls and xlsx

After problems with large worksheets I have turned to using the readxl package.

require(readxl)
sheet_names <- excel_sheets("my_file.xls")
d <- read_excel("my_file.xls", sheet = 1, range = "A3:C7", col_names = TRUE)

docx

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