Save Excel spreadsheet as .csv with R?

Question

What is the simplest way to convert a large Excel spreadsheet with multiple worksheets into .CSV files in R?

Note that I\'ve tested XLConnect and XLSX and found that m

Answer 1

Updated answer based on readxl package.

library("readxl")

#function to read all sheets of a workbook
read_excel_allsheets <- function(filename) {
  sheets <- readxl::excel_sheets(filename)
  x <-    lapply(sheets, function(X) readxl::read_excel(filename, sheet = X))
  names(x) <- sheets
  x
}

sheetnames <- read_excel_allsheets("excelFile.xlsx")
names(sheetnames)