xlconnect: Excel Connector for R

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# Directly referencing named regions in an Excel workbook
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# Author: Martin Studer, Mirai Solutions GmbH
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require(XLConnect)

# mydata xlsx file from demoFiles subfolder of package XLConnect
demoExcelFile <- system.file("demoFiles/mydata.xlsx", package = "XLConnect")

# Load workbook
wb <- loadWorkbook(demoExcelFile)

# Use 'with' in conjunction with a 'workbook' and directly
# reference the containing named regions ('mydata' in this case)
# Note: there's no need to explicitly read the named region

with(wb, {
	coplot(mpg ~ disp | as.factor(cyl), data = mydata,
		panel = panel.smooth, rows = 1)
})


# CAUTION: 'with' should only be used with simple workbooks that
# contain a small number of named regions; if you have workbooks
# with many named regions and you are only interested in a particluar
# subset, consider reading in those named region "manually" as this
# may increase performance