Both basic commands in R and dedicated packages are covered. This tutorial on reading and importing Excel files into R will give an overview of some of the options that exist to import Excel files and spreadsheets of different extensions to R. It doesn't need to surprise that R has implemented some ways to read, write and manipulate Excel files (and spreadsheets in general). It is an easily accessible tool for organizing, analyzing and storing data in tables and has widespread use in many different application fields all over the world. As most of you know, Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft.
