R Commander import Excel file

Question

Am using R Commander and trying to import a data set in Excel on a pc running Windows. Commands: Data > Import Data > from Excel file. When I do so I get the following R error message:

Loading required package: splines Loading required package: RcmdrMisc Loading required package: car Loading required package: carData Loading required package: sandwich Loading required package: effects lattice theme set by effectsTheme() See ?effectsTheme for details. Rcmdr Version 2.5-1 Attaching package: 'Rcmdr' The following object is masked from 'package:car': Confint Error in xlsx_sheets(path) : Evaluation error: 'exdir' does not exist.

Don't think it's a problem with Excel file. Have installed R Commander three times and encountered problem consistently. Doesn't work in csv format either. Mystery given I have RC on another pc and am not having this problem with same Excel file. What is the problem and how can I fix it? Thanks, RB

Answer 1

Try using the package readxl from the tidyverse to load your file. It's tried and true and easy to use.

First install the package from CRAN by running: install.packages("readxl")

Then import the library: library(readxl)

And finally read your excel file into an environment variable

my_spreadsheet <- read_excel("my_excel_file.xlsx")

This should work for both .xlsx files and .xls files

For more information see https://readxl.tidyverse.org/