R Linux Shell convert multi-sheet xls to csv in batch

Question

In R i have a script gets content of multiple xls files .

All files are about 2 MB. The script takes a few seconds for 3

Answer 1

For this job I use a python script named ssconverter.py (which you can find here, scroll down and download the two attachments, ssconverter.py and ooutils.py), which I call directly from R using system().

It can extract a specific sheet in the workbook, not only by name but also by sheet number, for example:

ssconverter.py infile.xls:2 outfile.csv

to extract the second sheet.

You need to have python and python-uno installed.