openxlsx (version 4.1.0)

deleteData: Delete cell data

Description

Delete contents and styling from a cell.

Usage

deleteData(wb, sheet, cols, rows, gridExpand = FALSE)

Arguments

wb

A workbook object

sheet

A name or index of a worksheet

cols

columns to delete data from.

rows

Rows to delete data from.

gridExpand

If TRUE, all data in rectangle min(rows):max(rows) X min(cols):max(cols) will be removed.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
## write some data
wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, "Worksheet 1")
x <- data.frame(matrix(runif(200), ncol = 10)) 
writeData(wb, sheet = 1, x = x, startCol = 2, startRow = 3, colNames = FALSE)

## delete some data
deleteData(wb, sheet = 1, cols = 3:5, rows = 5:7, gridExpand = TRUE)
deleteData(wb, sheet = 1, cols = 7:9, rows = 5:7, gridExpand = TRUE)
deleteData(wb, sheet = 1, cols = LETTERS, rows = 18, gridExpand = TRUE)

saveWorkbook(wb, "deleteDataExample.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)
# }