Read headers that span over multiple rows

Note: this function was previously read.excelheader()/read_excelheader()

read_header(sheet_name, path, header_start, header_end, unique_names)

read.excelheader(sheet_name, path, header_start, header_end, unique_names)

Arguments

sheet_name

A string denoting the sheetname

path

A path to the file that contains the sheet

header_start

A numeric denoting the row number of the start of the header Note!: If there are any blank rows at the top of the sheet, start the row counting at the first filled row https://github.com/tidyverse/readxl/issues/194#issuecomment-266829259

header_end

A numeric denoting the row number of the end of the header

unique_names

A logical denoting whether make.unique() for the column names

See also

Other readin functions: list_sheetnames(), read_excelsheet(), read_multsheets(), read_ods_multsheets(), read_sheets()