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Reading sheets

I N T R O D U C T I O N T O I M P O R T I N G D ATA I N R

Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R
XLConnect
Martin Studer

Work with Excel through R

Bridge between Excel and R

XLS and XLSX

Easy-to-use functionality

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Installation
install.packages("XLConnect")

also installing the dependencies 'XLConnectJars', 'rJava'


...

Problems?
Install Oracle's Java Development Kit (JDK)

Google your error!

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loadWorkbook()
library("XLConnect")
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")
str(book)

Formal class 'workbook' [package "XLConnect"] with 2 slots


..@ filename: chr "cities.xlsx"
..@ jobj : ...

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getSheets()
getSheets(book)

"year_1990" "year_2000"

library(readxl)
excel_sheets("cities.xlsx")

"year_1990" "year_2000"

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readWorksheet()
readWorksheet(book, sheet = "year_2000")

Capital Population
1 New York 17800000
2 Berlin 3382169
3 Madrid 2938723
4 Stockholm 1942362

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readWorksheet()

readWorksheet(book, sheet = "year_2000",


startRow = 3,
endRow = 4,
startCol = 2,
header = FALSE)

Col1
1 3382169
2 2938723

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Let's practice!
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Adapting sheets
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Filip Schouwenaars
Instructor, DataCamp
New data!
pop_2010 <- data.frame(Capital = c("New York", "Berlin", "Madrid", "Stockholm"),
Population = c(8191900, 3460725, 3273000, 1372565))

pop_2010

Capital Population
1 New York 8191900
2 Berlin 3460725
3 Madrid 3273000
4 Stockholm 1372565

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createSheet()
pop_2010 <- ... # truncated
library(XLConnect)
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")

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createSheet()
pop_2010 <- ... # truncated
library(XLConnect)
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")
createSheet(book, name = "year_2010")

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writeWorksheet()
pop_2010 <- ... # truncated
library(XLConnect)
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")
createSheet(book, name = "year_2010")
writeWorksheet(book, pop_2010, sheet = "year_2010")

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saveWorkbook()
pop_2010 <- ... # truncated
library(XLConnect)
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")
createSheet(book, name = "year_2010")
writeWorksheet(book, pop_2010, sheet = "year_2010")

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saveWorkbook()
pop_2010 <- ... # truncated
library(XLConnect)
book <- loadWorkbook("cities.xlsx")
createSheet(book, name = "year_2010")
writeWorksheet(book, pop_2010, sheet = "year_2010")

saveWorkbook(book, file = "cities2.xlsx")

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renameSheet()
renameSheet(book, "year_1990", "Y1990")
renameSheet(book, "year_2000", "Y2000")
renameSheet(book, "year_2010", "Y2010")

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renameSheet()
renameSheet(book, "year_1990", "Y1990")
renameSheet(book, "year_2000", "Y2000")
renameSheet(book, "year_2010", "Y2010")
saveWorkbook(book, file = "cities3.xlsx")

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removeSheet()
removeSheet(book, sheet = "Y2010")

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removeSheet()
removeSheet(book, sheet = "Y2010")
saveWorkbook(book, file = "cities4.xlsx")

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Wrap-up
Basic operations
Reproducibility is the key!

More functionality
Styling cells

Working with formulas

Arranging cells

...

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Let's practice!
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