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Reviewed by Dimitry Apollonsky ·
The readxl package (from the tidyverse) provides simple, dependency-free tools to extract data from Excel files into R. It supports both .xls and .xlsx formats, using libxls for .xls and RapidXML for .xlsx. It offers functions like read_excel to read data, excel_sheets to list sheets, and options to specify sheets, ranges, max rows, and NA handling.
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