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I would like to read the formulas inside a workbook using R. I have an excel file called "link.xlsx" with value 1 at cell A1 and another excel file called "myFile.xlsx" with value A1=[link.xlsx]Tabelle1!$A$1. I tried the following:

library('XLConnect')

wb<-loadWorkbook("myFile.xlsx")

getCellFormula(wb,1,1,1)

I get

[1]Tabelle1!$A$1

and not

[link.xlsx]Tabelle1!$A$1.

1) How I can fix the problem?

2)Is there a way to quickly get the list of external reference workbooks (linked excels) using R?

UPDATE: For the moment, I found a solution using the approach explained here:

Extract hyperlink from Excel file in R

but I still wonder if it is possible to solve the problem into a more compact way.

Jaap
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