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# Reading named regions from an Excel file
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# Author: Martin Studer, Mirai Solutions GmbH
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require(XLConnect)

# mtcars xlsx file from demoFiles subfolder of package XLConnect
demoExcelFile <- system.file("demoFiles/mtcars.xlsx", package = "XLConnect")

# Load workbook
wb <- loadWorkbook(demoExcelFile)

# Read named region 'mtcars' (with default header = TRUE)
data <- readNamedRegion(wb, name = "mtcars")
# Alternatively: wb$readNamedRegion(name = "mtcars")

# Print resulting data.frame
print(data)
