How To Download Excel Data Into R
Just like xlconnect the xlsx package can do a lot more than just reading data.
How to download excel data into r. My data read table file clipboard sep t header true. It can also be used to write data frames to excel workbooks and to manipulate the data further into those files. Import the excel file into r in order to import your file you ll need to apply the following template in the r editor. However you might also download excel xlsx xls files txt files zip files pdf files and so on. Open the excel file containing your data.
Video example further. Select and copy the data ctrl c type the r code below to import the copied data from the clipboard into r and store the data in a data frame my data. Both users will use the library xlsx to create an excel file. In the previous example we have downloaded a csv file. Now we will learn how to export data from r to excel.
Export data from r to excel is trivial for windows users and trickier for mac os user. If you would also like to write a data frame to an excel workbook you can just use write xlsx and write xlsx2. And let s say that excel file name is product list and your goal is to import that file into r. R allows for the download of any file format you want.