Unused arguments while using read.xlsx [duplicate]

Question

I am new to R, please help :) I am trying to read a file using read.xlsx() (from the package xlsx) in R. I am getting the following error:

Error in read.xlsx("survey_all", stringsAsFactors = F) : 
  unused argument (stringsAsFactors = F)

Why does it say unused argument?

Answer 1

If you're using xlsx library, this should work as you can pass stringsAsFactors = FALSE as an additional argument. However, if you're using openxlsx, then this is not an option.

Details here. Check which library you're using.