Manipulate an excel workbook

I know you can read and write excel using readxls and other R packages but is it possible to open a workbook, copy an existing sheet and paste it as a new worksheet in a workbook but in a set position ?

also can you rename a worksheet and modify cells using paste values ?

cheers

Yes to all questions I believe.

Have a look at the packages readxl & writexl. See Reading and Writing Excel Files With R Using readxl and writexl

or for more heavy lifting you may want to have a look at the xlsx package. There are several other packages that should do what you want.

openxlsx is also a good package for this. You can load an existing work book, manipulate things (including renaming a sheet), and then save it.

XLConnect is similar but has a Java dependency which can be a pain.

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