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Hi Everybody In R, the XLConnect package can read and write named region to and from Excel. In order to read a named region with the readNamedRegion function you need to know it's name. You can check is a name exists with existsName, but you still have to know the name. Is there a way to actually get a list of the named regions in XLConnect sinilar to getRanges in the xlsx package. On that point: what is the difference between XLConnect an...

Dear R Users, I have to read data from many excel spreadsheets, all which have some frustrating formatting (lots of titles, headers, etc.). I am trying to work directly from source data and the number of the spreadsheets I would have to go through make reformatting one by one a pain. I have found lots of ways to read excel files, but my question is whether there is a way to only read