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List and read Excel sheets

Just as readxl and gdata, you can use XLConnect to import data from Excel file into R.

To list the sheets in an Excel file, use getSheets(). To actually import data from a sheet, you can use readWorksheet(). Both functions require an XLConnect workbook object as the first argument. When using the readWorksheet() function, the sheet argument can accept either the name of the sheet (as a string) or the sheet's position number (as an integer) within the workbook.

You'll again be working with urbanpop.xlsx (view). The my_book object that links to this Excel file has already been created.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Importing Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Print out the sheets of the Excel file that my_book links to.
  • Import the second sheet in my_book as a data frame. Print it out.

Hands-on interactive exercise

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

# Build connection to urbanpop.xlsx
my_book <- loadWorkbook("urbanpop.xlsx")

# List the sheets in my_book
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# Import the second sheet in my_book
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