Setting colors on worksheet tabs

Sets a color on a specified worksheet tab. This only works for xlsx files.

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

Arguments

object

The workbook to use

sheet

The name or index of the sheet on which to set the tab color

color

The color to use for the sheet tab. The color is normally specified via a corresponding color constant from the XLC object.

Author

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

See also

workbook, XLC

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Load workbook (create if not existing)
wb <- loadWorkbook("sheetcolor.xlsx", create = TRUE)

# Create a worksheet named 'Sheet1'
createSheet(wb, name = "Sheet1")

# Set the "Sheet1" tab color as red
setSheetColor(wb, "Sheet1", XLC$COLOR.RED)

# Create a worksheet named 'Sheet2'
createSheet(wb, name = "Sheet2")

# Set the tab color of the second workbook sheet as green
setSheetColor(wb, 2, XLC$COLOR.GREEN)

# Save workbook (this actually writes the file to disk)
saveWorkbook(wb)

# clean up 
file.remove("sheetcolor.xlsx")
} # }