[R] Use "append" in the function write.xlsx2 or write.xlsx (openxlsx package)

[Ivan Calandra]

Not sure this is what you need or the best way to do it, but you could 
do something along these lines:

#first create a file name that depends on which file names already 
exist. The big thing here is list.files() but you probably need to adapt 
the rest to your needs:
fileNumber <- list.files(pattern="xxx")
fileName <- paste0("xxx", length(fileNumber)+1 , ".xlsx")

#then write to xlsx in a loop:
for(i in ...){
   write.xlsx2(df_all2[[i]], file=fileName, sheetName=i, append=TRUE)
}

This works at least with xlsx::write.xlsx2(), with no error or warning 
even for when the file does not exist (first iteration)

HTH,
Ivan

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Le 03/05/2016 à 05:21, jpm miao a écrit :
> Hi,
>
>     I am trying to print several dataset in several different sheets of the
> same xlsx file.
> I sometimes run the codes more than once, and I need to erase all things in
> the target file, and I do not use "append" in the first function call.
> However I want to write it in a loop. Is there a way to initiate a blank
> xlsx file so that I can use "append = TRUE" whenever I call the function
> write.xlsx2?
>
> output_file2<-"data_xx.xlsx"
> write.xlsx2(x= df_all2[["a"]], file = output_file2, sheetName = "a")
> write.xlsx2(x= df_all2[["b"]], file = output_file2, sheetName = "b",
> append=TRUE)
> write.xlsx2(x= df_all2[["c"]], file = output_file2, sheetName = "c",
> append= TRUE)
>
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