Merge cells within a worksheet

Merge cells within a worksheet

mergeCells(wb, sheet, cols, rows)

Arguments

wb	A workbook object
sheet	A name or index of a worksheet
cols	Columns to merge
rows	corresponding rows to merge

Details

As merged region must be rectangular, only min and max of cols and rows are used.

See also

removeCellMerge

Author

Alexander Walker

Examples

## Create a new workbook
wb <- createWorkbook()

## Add a worksheet
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet 1")
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet 2")

## Merge cells: Row 2 column C to F (3:6)
mergeCells(wb, "Sheet 1", cols = 2, rows = 3:6)

## Merge cells:Rows 10 to 20 columns A to J (1:10)
mergeCells(wb, 1, cols = 1:10, rows = 10:20)

## Intersecting merges
mergeCells(wb, 2, cols = 1:10, rows = 1)
mergeCells(wb, 2, cols = 5:10, rows = 2)
mergeCells(wb, 2, cols = c(1, 10), rows = 12) ## equivalent to 1:10 as only min/max are used
# mergeCells(wb, 2, cols = 1, rows = c(1,10)) # Throws error because intersects existing merge

## remove merged cells
removeCellMerge(wb, 2, cols = 1, rows = 1) # removes any intersecting merges
mergeCells(wb, 2, cols = 1, rows = 1:10) # Now this works

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