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R Excel Files

Excel files in the format of xls or xlsx can be directly read in R language by importing the xlsx library.

R 语言读写 Excel 文件需要安装扩展包,我们可以在 R 到控制台输入以下命令来安装:

R language reading and writing Excel files require the installation of extension packages, and we can input the following command into the R console to install:}//install.packages("xlsx", repos = "https:/mirrors.ustc.edu.cn/CRAN

)

The installation process is as follows:

In fact, almost all Excel software and most table software support CSV format data, so it is completely possible to interact with R through CSV without using Excel.

# Check if xlsx is installed successfully:
# Verify if the package is installed
# Load package
library("xlsx")
library("xlsx")

The output result of executing the above code is:

[1] TRUE
Loading required package: rJava
Loading required package: methods
Loading required package: xlsxjars

Excel File Data:

id    Name    url    Likes
1    Google    www.google.com    111
2    w3codebox    www.oldtoolbag.com    222
3    Taobao    www.taobao.com    333

You can copy and paste the above data into excel for testing.

Next, we can use the read.xlsx() function to read Excel data:

# Read the first sheet data of sites.xlsx
data <- read.xlsx("sites.xlsx", sheetIndex = 1)
print(data)