Reading named regions from an Excel file (wrapper function)

Reads named regions from an Excel file.

readNamedRegionFromFile(file, ...)

Arguments

file

The file name of the workbook to read

...

Arguments passed to readNamedRegion

Details

This is a convenience wrapper to read named regions from a file without creating an intermediate workbook object. See readNamedRegion for more details.

Author

Thomas Themel
Mirai Solutions GmbH https://mirai-solutions.ch

See also

readNamedRegion, readWorksheetFromFile, writeNamedRegionToFile,
writeWorksheetToFile, onErrorCell

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# multiregion xlsx file from demoFiles subfolder of package XLConnect
demoExcelFile <- system.file("demoFiles/multiregion.xlsx", 
                             package = "XLConnect")
                             
# Load a single named region into a single data.frame.
df <- readNamedRegionFromFile(demoExcelFile, name="Iris")

# Load multiple regions at once - returns a (named) list 
# of data.frames.
df <- readNamedRegionFromFile(demoExcelFile, 
                              name=c("Calendar", "Iris", "IQ"))
} # }