Gdata package perl issue

Question

I am attempting to follow this easy 2-minute video tutorial on importing an Excel spreadsheet into R as a data frame: http://www.screenr.com/QiN8

I followed each step, i

Answer 1

I ran into this issue myself and finally found the culprit. In my initial code i was working with an excel file with 4 sheets, and was operating on the 4th sheet- read.xls(con, perl=prl, sheet=4). My new xlxs file had one sheet, causing the error.