Add worksheet
Where readxl and gdata were only able to import Excel data, XLConnect's approach of providing an actual interface to an Excel file makes it able to edit your Excel files from inside R. In this exercise, you'll create a new sheet. In the next exercise, you'll populate the sheet with data, and save the results in a new Excel file.
You'll continue to work with urbanpop.xlsx. The my_book object that links to this Excel file is already available.
This exercise is part of the course
Importing Data in R (Part 1)
Exercise instructions
- Use
createSheet(), to create a new sheet inmy_book, named"data_summary". - Use [
getSheets()] to verify thatmy_booknow represents an Excel file with four sheets.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# XLConnect is already available
# Build connection to urbanpop.xlsx
my_book <- loadWorkbook("urbanpop.xlsx")
# Add a worksheet to my_book, named "data_summary"
# Use getSheets() on my_book