reading xls in r code example

Example 1: read xlsx in r

require(xlsx)
read.xlsx("myfile.xlsx", sheetName = "Sheet1")
read.xlsx2("myfile.xlsx", sheetName = "Sheet1")

Example 2: read xlsx in r

require(RODBC)
conn = odbcConnectExcel("myfile.xlsx") # open a connection to the Excel file
sqlTables(conn)$TABLE_NAME # show all sheets
df = sqlFetch(conn, "Sheet1") # read a sheet
df = sqlQuery(conn, "select * from [Sheet1 $]") # read a sheet (alternative SQL sintax)
close(conn) # close the connection to the file

Example 3: open xlsx with r

my_data <- read.table(file = "clipboard", 
                      sep = "\t", header=TRUE)