Read single worksheet

You can read a single worksheet from a spreadsheet with the sheet argument in read_excel(). The default, which we’ve been relying on up until now, is the first sheet.

read_excel("data/penguins.xlsx", sheet = "Torgersen Island")
## # A tibble: 52 × 8
##    species island    bill_length_mm  bill_depth_mm flipper_length_mm body_mass_g
##    <chr>   <chr>     <chr>           <chr>         <chr>             <chr>      
##  1 Adelie  Torgersen 39.1            18.7          181               3750       
##  2 Adelie  Torgersen 39.5            17.399999999… 186               3800       
##  3 Adelie  Torgersen 40.29999999999… 18            195               3250       
##  4 Adelie  Torgersen NA              NA            NA                NA         
##  5 Adelie  Torgersen 36.70000000000… 19.3          193               3450       
##  6 Adelie  Torgersen 39.29999999999… 20.6          190               3650       
##  7 Adelie  Torgersen 38.9            17.8          181               3625       
##  8 Adelie  Torgersen 39.20000000000… 19.600000000… 195               4675       
##  9 Adelie  Torgersen 34.1            18.100000000… 193               3475       
## 10 Adelie  Torgersen 42              20.2          190               4250       
## # ℹ 42 more rows
## # ℹ 2 more variables: sex <chr>, year <dbl>