title: Package for connecting R and Excel without the Java Virtual Machine
body: <p>A couple of months ago I found on the Internet information about an R package to connect R with Excel and the other way around (doing basically what <code>xlsx</code> and <code>XLConnect</code> do).</p>
  
  <p>However, the main difference with respect to the two above mentioned solutions was that the package wasn't designed to use the JVM (which keeps giving me some trouble).</p>
  
  <p>I've been spending quite some time trying to find the reference for that package, without success.</p>
  
  <p>Can you help me?
  Many thanks.</p>