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Selecting cell values with XLSX package

2 messages · samarvir singh, Jim Lemon

samarvir singh
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Hello,

I am working with some 2700 files in .xlsx format
Like the one attached below

I want to transform all tabular data to a single row as shown below in
example or in attachment
so that all data can be used as a variable.
and replicate all to make a single csv file which has all the data

EXAMPLE

  company SALE-9 SALE-8 SALE-7 SALE-6 SALE-5 SALE-4 SALE-3 SALE-2 SALE-1
SALE op-9  MARUTI SUZUKI INDIA LIMITED 11046.3 12197.9 14806.4 18066.8
20729.4 29317.7 36618.4 35587.1 43587.9 43700.6 1570.3  Nextcompany name ?

Thanks for your help. help me however you can.
 Really appreciate you taking the time.
please see the attachment. thank you.
I would love to share the findings, Whatever I can find.
P.S - every file is of same format

 thank you.
Jim Lemon
# 
Hi samarvir,
Your attachment didn't make it through the list filter. From your
example, you seem to want something like this:

# assume you are using the readxl package to read the data in
mydf<-read_excel("mydata.xlsx",col_types=rep("character",11))
mydatavector<-as.vector(as.matrix(mydf))

This is probably not what you need, as each spreadsheet file will be
turned into a long vector of character (string) values. What you
probably should think of is reading in the spreadsheets:

mydf1<-read_excel("mydata1.xlsx")
mydf2...

and merging the resulting data frames. With that many data files, you
will probably have to do this in stages.

Jim
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:36 PM, samarvir singh <samarvir1996 at gmail.com> wrote: