Excel parser (reader) for ImageJ

[David Eccles (gringer)]

Is there any existing ImageJ interface to read Excel files? Ideally, I'd like something similar to
the 'read.xls' function in the R gdata package. This function by default assumes that the first
sheet in the Excel file is a properly formatted table with headings, and spits the data out into a
formatted R structure. I presume that something that would do this in ImageJ would use something
like the ResultsTable format, although storing string values in that seems to be somewhat tricky.

I notice that there already seems to be a *writer* plugin available -- I'm not quite sure if it can
be used for reading as well (it uses POI, so might be capable of that) :

http://rsbweb.nih.gov/ij/plugins/excel-writer.html

I currently intend to shove code from POI [http://poi.apache.org/index.html] into my next ImageJ
plugin that does something like this, but thought it might be a good idea to see if it's already
been done before.

Thanks,
  - David Eccles