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Import Excel files from the web

When working with multiple data sources, .xls is a common format for storage and exchange. You have been provided with a URL which you'll be using to download and import a .xls file. The URL is already available in the sample code. Once downloaded, you will import the file using readxl and inspect its content.

This is a part of the course

“Intermediate Importing Data in R”

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Exercise instructions

  • Load the readxl package. It is already installed on DataCamp's servers.
  • Use download.file() to download the .xls file behind the URL and store it locally as "local_latitude.xls".
  • Import the .xls file located at the URL url_xls using read_excel(). Store the resulting data frame as excel_readxl.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Load the readxl package


# Specification of url: url_xls
url_xls <- "https://assets.datacamp.com/production/course_1478/datasets/latitude.xls"

# Download file behind URL, name it local_latitude.xls


# Import the local .xls file 
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