Clearing worksheets in a workbook

Clears worksheets with specified names or indices in a workbook.

# S4 method for class 'workbook,numeric'
clearSheet(object, sheet)
  # S4 method for class 'workbook,character'
clearSheet(object, sheet)

Arguments

object

The workbook to use

sheet

The name or the index of the worksheet to clear

Details

Clearing a worksheet means to clear all the cells in that worksheet. Consequently, the saved workbook should be smaller in size. Clearing a worksheet can be useful if data sets in a worksheet need to be replaced, i.e. data are first read, modified in R and finally written back to the worksheet. Without clearing the worksheet first, (parts of) the original data may still be visible if they occupied a larger range of the worksheet.

Author

Nicola Lambiase
Mirai Solutions GmbH https://mirai-solutions.ch

See also

workbook, clearNamedRegion, clearRange, clearRangeFromReference

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# mtcars xlsx file from demoFiles subfolder of 
# package XLConnect
demoExcelFile <- system.file("demoFiles/mtcars.xlsx", 
                             package = "XLConnect")

# Load workbook
wb <- loadWorkbook(demoExcelFile)

# Clear worksheets named 'mtcars' and 'mtcars2'
clearSheet(wb, sheet = c("mtcars", "mtcars2"))

# Clear 3rd worksheet
clearSheet(wb, sheet = 3) 
} # }