Grow your data science skills at posit::conf(2024)

August 12th-14th in Seattle


Like it or not, spreadsheets are a common data source for many of us. We’ll review the overall landscape for importing spreadsheet data into R and then go into detail for the readxl package specifically. readxl is the Tidyverse solution for reading data stored in the legacy xls format or the more modern xlsx format. It has no tricky external dependencies, is quite speedy, and is easy to install and use across all operating systems.

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