install-ssconvert

In gnumeric: Read Data from Files Readable by 'gnumeric'

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

The R package gnumeric requires an external program, ssconvert (normally installed as part of the spreadsheet application gnumeric) in PATH.

• Gnumeric home page is http://www.gnumeric.org

Installing ssconvert on MS Windows

The last release of the gnumeric application for windows is 1.12.17 from 2014.

The page https://www.cyberithub.com/how-to-install-gnumeric-ssconvert-on-windows-10-using-2-methods/ suggests

Either

• Install Chocolatey. See https://chocolatey.org/install
• choco install gnumeric
• setx /M path "%path%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Gnumeric\1.12.17\bin"

Or

• Download and run the installer: https://github.com/roelvandersteen/chocolatey/blob/master/gnumeric/nupkg/tools/gnumeric-1.12.17-20140610.exe
• Add the corresponding directory (for example C:\Program Files (x86)\Gnumeric\1.12.17\bin) to the environment variable PATH

Installing ssconvert on OS X

Both https://command-not-found.com/ssconvert and https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/gnumeric suggest

• Install brew. See https://brew.sh/
• brew install gnumeric

Installing ssconvert on Linux

Use the systems package manager to install the package gnumeric (On Fedora: gnumeric-1).

See https://command-not-found.com/ssconvert

gnumeric documentation built on Oct. 18, 2023, 5:10 p.m.