Importing *cell-formatting* information from excel file into R

问题

I have been given excel files (.xlsx) where the format of the cell is relevant information which I need to capture. The key formatting of interest are (1) cell color and (2) border (left + right, full box or absent).

Is it possible to read this into R?

回答1:

This is a very old question but still comes up in searches so I think it is useful to point people toward the tidyxl package.

tidyxl::xlsx_cells() reads an Excel spreadsheet in as a data frame where each row represents a single cell of the spreadsheet, with its address (e.g. A1), contents, and properties.

tidyxl::xlsx_formats() returns a nested list of all the different cell formats in the Excel spreadsheet.

The local_format_id column in the data frame returned by xlsx_cells() allows you to look up the formatting information for each cell in the list returned by xlsx_formats().

More information is included in the tidyxl package vignette.

回答2:

I've been really happy with the Python openpyxl project. Perhaps you can manipulate (preprocess) the xlsx in python to be digestable by R (perhaps CSV or XLS).

http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html#tutorial

http://openpyxl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/usage.html#read-an-existing-workbook

There's an XLS import in Quick R:

http://www.statmethods.net/input/importingdata.html

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17816984/importing-cell-formatting-information-from-excel-file-into-r