Opening/reading an excel file in r

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Opening/reading an excel file in r



I am having trouble opening/reading excel files that I download from the website of the Australian Bureau of Statistics using readxl.



I've downloaded Table 12 from the website but when I go to read the sheets of the workbook in r I get an error message:


r


library(readxl)
excel_sheets(path = "C:/Users/Name/Documents/downloaded_file.xls")

"Error in xls_sheets(path) : Failed to open C:/Users/Name/Documents/downloaded_file.xls".



In previous versions of readxl I have had no trouble reading these files into r but I've recently updated my readxl version, after a hiatus of several months, and now it doesn't work.


readxl


r



I have tried to download the file using the download.file function taking care to set mode = wb but that makes no difference to being able to access the data in the workbook either.


download.file


mode = wb



Grateful for any pointers.





The file is a "Composite Document File V2 Document", so it contains "streams" other than normal excel data. Sounds like someone did some "advanced authoring" on or near this file :-). I'm not familiar with tools in R that read it, nor any (non-R) tools that might separate the streams for you.
– r2evans
23 mins ago







Thanks for that @r2evans. How did you work that out?
– Dom
19 mins ago





Downloaded it and ran file 6202001.xls, which reported the format as such. I haven't tried any of the other files on the same page, so it's possible it's just a one-off problem that staff accidentally dorked when handling the files. If you have a mechanism to ask them about it, perhaps they can regenerate or fix the file.
– r2evans
5 mins ago


file 6202001.xls









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