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readxl (1)

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
Microsoft Excel
Common data analysis tool
Many R packages to interact with Excel

readxl - Hadley Wickham

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


Typical Structure Excel Data
Different sheets with tabular data

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


readxl
excel_sheets()
list different sheets

read_excel()
actually import data into R

install.packages("readxl")
library(readxl)

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excel_sheets()
dir()

"cities.xlsx" "the_rest_is_secret.txt"

excel_sheets("cities.xlsx")

"year_1990" "year_2000"

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read_excel()
read_excel("cities.xlsx")

# A tibble: 4 × 2
Capital Population
<chr> <dbl>
1 New York 16044000
2 Berlin 3433695
3 Madrid 3010492
4 Stockholm 1683713

read_excel("cities.xlsx", sheet = 2)
read_excel("cities.xlsx", sheet = "year_2000")

# A tibble: 4 × 2
Capital Population
<chr> <dbl>
1 New York 17800000
2 Berlin 3382169
3 Madrid 2938723
4 Stockholm 1942362

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Let's practice!
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readxl (2)
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
read_excel()
read_excel(path, sheet = 1,
col_names = TRUE,
col_types = NULL,
skip = 0)

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


read_excel() - col_names
read_excel(path, sheet = 1,
col_names = TRUE,
col_types = NULL,
skip = 0)

col_names = FALSE: R assigns names itself

col_names = character vector: manually specify

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


read_excel() - col_types
read_excel(path, sheet = 1,
col_names = TRUE,
col_types = NULL,
skip = 0)

read_excel("cities.xlsx", col_types = c("text", "text"))

# A tibble: 4 × 2
Capital Population
<chr> <chr>
1 New York 16044000
2 Berlin 3433695
3 Madrid 3010492
4 Stockholm 1683713

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


read_excel() - col_types
read_excel(path, sheet = 1,
col_names = TRUE,
col_types = NULL,
skip = 0)`

read_excel("cities.xlsx",
col_types = c("text", "blank"))

# A tibble: 4 × 1
Capital
<chr>
1 New York
2 Berlin
3 Madrid
4 Stockholm

INTRODUCTION TO IMPORTING DATA IN R


read_excel() - skip
read_excel(path, sheet = 1,
col_names = TRUE,
col_types = NULL,
skip = 0)

read_excel("cities.xlsx",
col_names = c("Capital", "Population"),
skip = 2)

# A tibble: 3 × 2
Capital Population
<chr> <dbl>
1 Berlin 3433695
2 Madrid 3010492
3 Stockholm 1683713

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Wrap-up
excel_sheets()
read_excel()

Everything you need!

Fast

Same arguments as in readr package

Consistency

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Let's practice!
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