Delete cell data

Delete contents and styling from a cell.

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.

Author

Alexander Walker

Examples

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