How to read multiple Excel files in R

In this article, we will discuss how to merge multiple Excel files in the R programming language.

Modules Used:

• dplyr: The dplyr package in R is a structure of data manipulation that provides a uniform set of verbs, helping to resolve the most frequent data manipulation hurdles.
• plyr: The “plyr” package in R is used to work with data, including its enhancements and manipulations. 
• readxl: This package is used to work with excel files in R
• readr: This package is used to read files in R

Functions Used:            

• list.files() function produces a character vector of the names of files or directories in the named directory.

Syntax: list.files(path = “.”, pattern = NULL, all.files = FALSE,full.names = FALSE, recursive = FALSE, ignore.case = FALSE, include.dirs = FALSE, no.. = FALSE)

• lapply() function returns a list of the same length as X, each element of which is the result of applying FUN to the corresponding element of X.

Syntax: lapply(X, FUN, …)

• bind_rows() function is an efficient implementation of the common pattern of do.call(rbind, dfs) or do.call(cbind, dfs) for binding many data frames into one.

Syntax: bind_rows(…, .id = NULL)

Files in use:

gfg_data1.xlsx

gfg_data2.xlsx

gfg_data3.xlsx

Example: Merging Excel using R

R

library("dplyr")
library("plyr")
library("readr")
library("readxl")

gfg_data <- list.files(path = "Location/to/folder",
                       pattern = "*.xlsx",
                       full.names = TRUE) %>%
  lapply(read_excel) %>%
  bind_rows

gfg_data

Output: