Importing excel with merged cells in R

Question

I have a data set whose first column is merged with 4 columns in excel. When I import the same in R only this column gets imported while the others don't. Could you please suggest me how to import the data correctly.

Answer 1

Try with:

data = read.csv("FILE_NAME.csv", header=TRUE, stringsAsFactors=FALSE, sep = "\\t")

it should work. And to delete the first rows, then it is easier this way:

data[,firstROWnumberTOdelete:secondROWnumberTOdelete] <- NULL