Removing sheets
After presenting the new Excel sheet to your peers, it appears not everybody is a big fan. Why summarize sheets and store the info in Excel if all the information is implicitly available? To hell with it, just remove the entire fourth sheet!
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Importing Data in R
Exercise instructions
- Build a connection to
"renamed.xlsx", the Excel file that you've built in the previous exercise; it's available in your working directory. Store this connection asmy_book. - Use
removeSheet()to remove the fourth sheet frommy_book. The sheet name is"summary". Recall thatremoveSheet()accepts either the index or the name of the sheet as the second argument. - Save the resulting workbook,
my_book, to a file"clean.xlsx".
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
# Build connection to renamed.xlsx: my_book
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# Remove the fourth sheet
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# Save workbook to "clean.xlsx"
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