Read only certain columns from xls

Question

I have an excel spreadsheet with several sheets. The format is as below:

Date        A       B       C       D       E       F                       Referenc         


        

Answer 1

You can use library XLConnect to read .xls files. Function readWorksheet() lets you set columns and rows you need to import.

library(XLConnect)
wb<-loadWorkbook("wb.xls")
data <- readWorksheet(wb, sheet = "Sheet1",startCol=1,endCol=7)