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

With the readxl package using read_xlsx you can specify the range. Use read_xls or read_excel depending on file type.

library(readxl)
df <- read_xlsx(path = "filename.xlsx", sheet = "sheetname", range = cell_cols("A:G"))