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writeWorksheet-methods: Writing data to worksheets

Description

Writes data to worksheets of a workbook.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'workbook,ANY,character':
writeWorksheet(object,data,sheet,startRow,startCol,header,rownames)
## S3 method for class 'workbook,ANY,numeric':
writeWorksheet(object,data,sheet,startRow,startCol,header,rownames)

Arguments

object
The workbook to write to
data
Data to write
sheet
The name or index of the sheet to write to
startRow
Index of the first row to write to. The default is startRow = 1.
startCol
Index of the first column to write to. The default is startCol = 1.
header
Specifies if the column names should be written. The default is TRUE.
rownames
Name (character) of column to use for the row names of the provided data object. If specified, the row names of the data object (data.frame) will be included as an additional column with the specified name. If

Details

Writes data to the worksheet specified by sheet. data is assumed to be a data.frame and is coerced to one if this is not already the case. startRow and startCol define the top left corner of the data region to be written. Note that the arguments are vectorized and as such multiple data objects (data.frame's) can be written to different worksheets in one call. In this case data is assumed to be a list of data.frames.

See Also

workbook, writeNamedRegion, appendWorksheet, appendNamedRegion, readWorksheet, readNamedRegion, writeWorksheetToFile

Examples

Run this code
# Load workbook (create if not existing)
wb <- loadWorkbook("writeWorksheet.xlsx", create = TRUE)

# Create a worksheet called 'CO2'
createSheet(wb, name = "CO2")

# Write built-in data set 'CO2' to the worksheet created above;
# offset from the top left corner and with default header = TRUE
writeWorksheet(wb, CO2, sheet = "CO2", startRow = 4, startCol = 2)

# Save workbook (this actually writes the file to disk)
saveWorkbook(wb)

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