openxlsx (version 4.1.0)

removeTable: Remove an Excel table in a workbook

Description

List Excel tables in a workbook

Usage

removeTable(wb, sheet, table)

Arguments

wb

A workbook object

sheet

A name or index of a worksheet

table

Name of table to remove. See getTables

Value

character vector of table names on the specified sheet

Examples

# NOT RUN {
wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, sheetName = "Sheet 1")
addWorksheet(wb, sheetName = "Sheet 2")
writeDataTable(wb, sheet = "Sheet 1", x = iris, tableName = "iris")
writeDataTable(wb, sheet = 1, x = mtcars, tableName = "mtcars", startCol = 10)


removeWorksheet(wb, sheet = 1) ## delete worksheet removes table objects

writeDataTable(wb, sheet = 1, x = iris, tableName = "iris")
writeDataTable(wb, sheet = 1, x = mtcars, tableName = "mtcars", startCol = 10)

## removeTable() deletes table object and all data
getTables(wb, sheet = 1)
removeTable(wb = wb, sheet = 1, table = "iris")
writeDataTable(wb, sheet = 1, x = iris, tableName = "iris", startCol = 1)

getTables(wb, sheet = 1)
removeTable(wb = wb, sheet = 1, table = "iris")
writeDataTable(wb, sheet = 1, x = iris, tableName = "iris", startCol = 1)

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