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Excel database

Source: R/excel_database_class.R
excel_database.Rd

A data.frame imported from the sheet of an excel file

Usage

excel_database(
  source = character(0),
  sheet = 1,
  rowNames = FALSE,
  colNames = TRUE,
  startRow = 1,
  ...
)

Arguments

source

(ANY) The source of annotation data. The default is character(0).

sheet

(character) The name of the sheet to import. The default is 1.

rowNames

(logical) If TRUE, first column of data will be used as row names. The default is FALSE.

colNames

(logical) If TRUE, first row of data will be used as column names. The default is TRUE.

startRow

(numeric, integer) First row to begin looking for data. Empty rows at the top of a file are always skipped, regardless of the value of startRow. The default is 1.

...

Additional slots and values passed to struct_class.

Value

A excel_database object. This object has no output slots.

Details

This object makes use of functionality from the following packages:

  • openxlsx

Inheritance

A excel_database object inherits the following struct classes:

[excel_database] -> [annotation_database] -> [annotation_source] -> [struct_class]

References

Schauberger P, Walker A (2023). openxlsx: Read, Write and Edit xlsx Files. R package version 4.2.5.2, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=openxlsx.

See also

Other annotation databases: AnnotationDb_database, GO_database, annotation_database, annotation_source, rdata_database, rds_cache, rds_database

Examples

M = excel_database( sheet = character(0), rowNames = FALSE, colNames
= FALSE, startRow = 1, tag = character(0), data = data.frame(id=NA),
source = "ANY")