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R Programming Fundamentals
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R Programming Fundamentals

by Kaelen Medeiros
September 2018
Beginner
206 pages
4h 27m
English
Packt Publishing
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Excel Spreadsheets

One last common data type is Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, which are usually saved with the file extension .xlsx. We can use the xlsx R library, which contains read. xlsx() to import the students.xlsx file from GitHub. There's only one sheet in this file, but if there was more than one, we could specify which sheet to read in with the sheet argument.

Let's now use the xlsx package to import and export Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data. Follow the steps given below:

  1. Navigate to the .xlsx version of the students dataset on GitHub, at the following link: https://github.com/TrainingByPackt/R-Programming-Fundamentals/blob/master/lesson1/students.xlsx.
  2. Hit View Raw and it will automatically download to your computer.
  3. Move the ...
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