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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 (view). The my_book object that links to this Excel file is already available.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to Importing Data in R

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Exercise instructions

  • Use createSheet(), to create a new sheet in my_book, named "data_summary".
  • Use getSheets() to verify that my_book now represents an Excel file with four sheets.

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")

# Add a worksheet to my_book, named "data_summary"
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# Use getSheets() on my_book
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