How to read in multiple “.xlsx” files to R

Question

Having trouble trying to read in multiple .xlsx files to R from the same directory. I keep getting the following error.

\"Error in path.expand(file) :

Answer 1

You want to merge all Excel files in a folder?

library(xlsx)
setwd("C:/Users/rshuell001/Desktop/excel_files")
data.files = list.files(pattern = "*.xlsx")
data <- lapply(data.files, function(x) read.xlsx(x, sheetIndex = 1))

for (i in data.files) {
    data <- rbind(data, read.xlsx(i, sheetIndex = 1))
}