| Workbook {xlsx} | R Documentation |
Functions to manipulate Excel 2007 workbooks.
Description
createWorkbook creates an empty workbook object.
Usage
createWorkbook(type = "xlsx")
loadWorkbook(file, password = NULL)
saveWorkbook(wb, file, password = NULL)
Arguments
type |
a String, either |
file |
the path to the file you intend to read or write. Can be an xls or xlsx format. |
password |
a String with the password. |
wb |
a workbook object as returned by |
Details
loadWorkbook loads a workbook from a file.
saveWorkbook saves an existing workook to an Excel 2007 file.
Reading or writing of password protected workbooks is supported for Excel 2007 OOXML format only. Note that in Linux, LibreOffice is not able to read password protected spreadsheets.
Value
createWorkbook returns a java object reference pointing to an
empty workbook object.
loadWorkbook creates a java object reference corresponding to the
file to load.
Author(s)
Adrian Dragulescu
See Also
write.xlsx for writing a data.frame to an
xlsx file. read.xlsx for reading the content of a
xlsx worksheet into a data.frame. To extract worksheets and
manipulate them, see Worksheet.
Examples
wb <- createWorkbook()
# see all the available java methods that you can call
rJava::.jmethods(wb)
# for example
wb$getNumberOfSheets() # no sheet yet!
# loadWorkbook("C:/Temp/myFile.xls")