R – Importing Excel file – R for Statistics

Information sourced from: https://datatofish.com/import-excel-r/

Install package and load library:

# Install package if required: 
install.packages("readxl")

# Make sure package is loaded: 
library("readxl")

 

Use ‘read_excel’  to read the file.

# Use 'read_excel'  to read the file:
read_excel("Path where your Excel file is stored\\File Name.xlsx",sheet = "Your sheet name")

Alternatively, set the working directory as the location where the file is located and omit the filepath so only the filename is required.

Assign it to a variable like this:

data_set = read_excel("Path where your Excel file is stored\\File Name.xlsx",sheet = "Your sheet name")

 

NOTE: Excel file needs to be closed for R to open the file.

Together:

# Only run 'install' when/if needed 
# install.packages("readxl") 
library("readxl") 
read_excel("File_Path\\File_Name.xlsx",sheet = "Sheet_Name") 

# Or...set to desired variable 
data_set = read_excel("File_Path\\File_Name.xlsx",sheet = "Sheet_Name")

 

AND…. This site: https://appsilon.com/r-and-excel/ discusses some extra points such as specifying range and also using ‘BERT’ from Excel to access R functionality from Excel

Alternatively, use copy/paste to move data from Excel to R:

DataVar <- read.delim("clipboard", sep = "\t")

As discussed here: https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2023/03/top-3-ways-to-import-data-into-r-using-copy-and-paste/