R read_excel: libxls error: Unable to parse file
问题 I'm trying to read xls file into R using readxl::read_excel , but it's giving the following errors: Error: filepath: //.../data.xls libxls error: Unable to parse file also tried readxl::excel_sheets(), but same errors. readxl::format_from_ext(path) gives "xls" Also tried re-installing readxl packages, didn't work for me. My current alternative is to convert this file to "xlsx" using Excel and then read in with readxl::read_excel, but I would like to import the "xls" directly. How to fix it?