
Read the contents of a worksheet into an R data.frame
.
read.xlsx(file, sheetIndex, sheetName=NULL, rowIndex=NULL,
startRow=NULL, endRow=NULL, colIndex=NULL,
as.data.frame=TRUE, header=TRUE, colClasses=NA,
keepFormulas=FALSE, encoding="unknown", ...)read.xlsx2(file, sheetIndex, sheetName=NULL, startRow=1,
colIndex=NULL, endRow=NULL, as.data.frame=TRUE, header=TRUE,
colClasses="character", ...)
the path to the file to read.
a number representing the sheet index in the workbook.
a character string with the sheet name.
a numeric vector indicating the rows you want to
extract. If NULL
, all rows found will be extracted, unless
startRow
or endRow
are specified.
a numeric vector indicating the cols you want to
extract. If NULL
, all columns found will be extracted.
a logical value indicating if the result should
be coerced into a data.frame
. If FALSE
, the result is
a list with one element for each column.
a logical value indicating whether the first row
corresponding to the first element of the rowIndex
vector
contains the names of the variables.
For read.xlsx
a character vector that
represent the class of each column. Recycled as necessary, or if
the character vector is named, unspecified values are taken to be
NA
. For read.xlsx2
see readColumns
.
a logical value indicating if Excel formulas should be shown as text in R and not evaluated before bringing them in.
encoding to be assumed for input strings. See
read.table
.
a number specifying the index of starting row. For
read.xlsx
this argument is active only if
rowIndex
is NULL
.
a number specifying the index of the last row to pull. If
NULL
, read all the rows in the sheet. For
read.xlsx
this argument is active only if
rowIndex
is NULL
.
other arguments to data.frame
, for example
stringsAsFactors
A data.frame or a list, depending on the as.data.frame
argument. If some of the columns are read as NA's it's an indication
that the colClasses
argument has not been set properly.
If the sheet is empty, return NULL
. If the sheet does not
exist, return an error.
The read.xlsx
function provides a high level API for reading data
from an Excel worksheet. It calls several low level functions in
the process. Its goal is to provide the conveniency of
read.table
by borrowing from its signature.
The function pulls the value of each non empty cell in the worksheet
into a vector of type list
by preserving the data type. If
as.data.frame=TRUE
, this vector of lists is then formatted into a
rectangular shape. Special care is needed for worksheets with ragged
data.
An attempt is made to guess the class type of the variable corresponding
to each column in the worksheet from the type of the first non empty
cell in that column. If you need to impose a specific class type on a
variable, use the colClasses
argument. It is recommended to
specify the column classes and not rely on R
to guess them,
unless in very simple cases.
Excel internally stores dates and datetimes as numeric values, and does
not keep track of time zones and DST. When a datetime column is
brought into R, it is converted to POSIXct
class with a
GMT timezone. Occasional rounding errors may appear and the R
and Excel string representation my differ by one second. For
read.xlsx2
bring in a datetime column as a numeric one and then
convert to class POSIXct
or Date
. Also rounding the
POSIXct
column in R usually does the trick too.
The read.xlsx2
function does more work in Java so it achieves
better performance (an order of magnitude faster on sheets with
100,000 cells or more). The result of read.xlsx2
will in
general be different from read.xlsx
, because internally
read.xlsx2
uses readColumns
which is tailored for tabular
data.
write.xlsx
for writing xlsx
documents.
See also readColumns
for reading only a set of columns
into R.
# NOT RUN {
file <- system.file("tests", "test_import.xlsx", package = "xlsx")
res <- read.xlsx(file, 1) # read first sheet
head(res)
# NA. Population Income Illiteracy Life.Exp Murder HS.Grad Frost Area
# 1 Alabama 3615 3624 2.1 69.05 15.1 41.3 20 50708
# 2 Alaska 365 6315 1.5 69.31 11.3 66.7 152 566432
# 3 Arizona 2212 4530 1.8 70.55 7.8 58.1 15 113417
# 4 Arkansas 2110 3378 1.9 70.66 10.1 39.9 65 51945
# 5 California 21198 5114 1.1 71.71 10.3 62.6 20 156361
# 6 Colorado 2541 4884 0.7 72.06 6.8 63.9 166 103766
# >
# To convert an Excel datetime colum to POSIXct, do something like:
# as.POSIXct((x-25569)*86400, tz="GMT", origin="1970-01-01")
# For Dates, use a conversion like:
# as.Date(x-25569, origin="1970-01-01")
res2 <- read.xlsx2(file, 1)
# }
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