library(SheetReader) options(stringsAsFactors = FALSE) data <- read_xlsx(system.file("extdata", "multi-test.xlsx", package = "SheetReader"), skip_rows=1, skip_columns=2, headers=FALSE) stopifnot(colnames(data) == paste0("Column", 0:5)) stopifnot(data[1, "Column0"] == -234.7239) stopifnot(is.na(data[1, "Column5"]))