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Excel (and French people) are such a pain in the…

A few days ago, I published a post entitled extracting datasets from excel files in a zipped folder, because I wanted to use datasets that were online, in some (zipped) excel format. The first difficult part was the folder with a non-standard character (the French é). Because next week I should be using those dataset in a crash course in Gabon (in Africa), I wanted to make sure that everthing will go fine when we will run the code. And discussing @3wen‘s trick on Day 1 was maybe not the best way to explain that R is a very simple tool that should be used for data analysis…

To make thing easier, I did upload the xlsx files on my webpage. I wanted to use the xlsx R package. Unfortunately, on my linux laptop, I have troubles installing that package.

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