This is a simple Mathematica package for reading Excel worksheets, intended for use with economic datasets.
Mathematica's standard tools struggle with large workbook files, and can not have a spreadsheet refresh its data sources. DataTricks also allows range definitions (in R1C1 format) and named ranges, so that range coordinates do not have to be hard-coded.
This package is experimental, so use at your own risk. If you discover problems, please file a bug report.
To install, download DataTricks.m to your computer and choose Install... from Mathematica’s File menu. Choose ‘File’ as the source, and select the downloaded file. Then, in your notebook, include the following line:
Needs["DataTricks`"]
DataTricks provides two functions: importExcel[...] and importExcelTS[...] for time-series data.
Documentation is available in demo.nb, or at this page. Unit tests are available in test_script.nb, or at this page.
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Copyright (c) 2015 Alex Cooper
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