Querying the last (non-empty) column on a worksheet

Queries the last (non-empty) column on a worksheet.

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

Arguments

object

The workbook to use

sheet

The name or index of the sheet of which to query the last column

Details

Returns the (1-based) numeric index of the last non-empty column in the specified worksheet.

Author

Martin Studer
Mirai Solutions GmbH https://mirai-solutions.ch

See also

workbook

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)

# Query the last row of the 'mtcars' worksheet
getLastColumn(wb, "mtcars")

# Query the last row of the 'mtcars2' worksheet
getLastColumn(wb, "mtcars2")

# Query the last row of the 'mtcars3' worksheet
getLastColumn(wb, "mtcars3")
} # }