Write a character vector as an Excel Formula

Source: R/writeData.R

Write a a character vector containing Excel formula to a worksheet.

writeFormula(
  wb,
  sheet,
  x,
  startCol = 1,
  startRow = 1,
  array = FALSE,
  xy = NULL
)

Arguments

wb

A Workbook object containing a worksheet.
sheet

The worksheet to write to. Can be the worksheet index or name.
x

A character vector.
startCol

A vector specifying the starting column to write to.
startRow

A vector specifying the starting row to write to.
array

A bool if the function written is of type array
xy

An alternative to specifying startCol and startRow individually. A vector of the form c(startCol, startRow).

Details

Currently only the english version of functions are supported. Please don't use the local translation. The examples below show a small list of possible formulas:

  • SUM(B2:B4)

  • AVERAGE(B2:B4)

  • MIN(B2:B4)

  • MAX(B2:B4)

  • ...

See also

writeData

Author

Alexander Walker

Examples


## There are 3 ways to write a formula

wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet 1")
writeData(wb, "Sheet 1", x = iris)

## SEE int2col() to convert int to Excel column label

## 1. -  As a character vector using writeFormula

v <- c("SUM(A2:A151)", "AVERAGE(B2:B151)") ## skip header row
writeFormula(wb, sheet = 1, x = v, startCol = 10, startRow = 2)
writeFormula(wb, 1, x = "A2 + B2", startCol = 10, startRow = 10)


## 2. - As a data.frame column with class "formula" using writeData

df <- data.frame(
  x = 1:3,
  y = 1:3,
  z = paste(paste0("A", 1:3 + 1L), paste0("B", 1:3 + 1L), sep = " + "),
  z2 = sprintf("ADDRESS(1,%s)", 1:3),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

class(df$z) <- c(class(df$z), "formula")
class(df$z2) <- c(class(df$z2), "formula")

addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet 2")
writeData(wb, sheet = 2, x = df)



## 3. - As a vector with class "formula" using writeData

v2 <- c("SUM(A2:A4)", "AVERAGE(B2:B4)", "MEDIAN(C2:C4)")
class(v2) <- c(class(v2), "formula")

writeData(wb, sheet = 2, x = v2, startCol = 10, startRow = 2)

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


## 4. - Writing internal hyperlinks

wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet1")
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet2")
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1", x = '=HYPERLINK("#Sheet2!B3", "Text to Display - Link to Sheet2")')

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