A wrapper around the readxl::read_excel function to get data from an Excel file. It is a convenience function for using targets. As most of the data cleaning functions that have been moved to the clean_* set of functions, this may not need to exist anymore, but it is left for heritage purposes.
Arguments
- file
The relative path to the Excel data file.
- sheet_name
The name of the particular worksheet from which we wish to get data. The default is Sheet1.
- skip_rows
The number of rows in the sheet to skip before processing the file. The default is 0. This allows the user to deal with files that have rows that contain data that we do not wish to use in our analysis.