Excel Spreadsheet akan diimpor ke file XDF menggunakan rxImport melalui antarmuka Excel ODBC. Mengingat bahwa pengandar Excel ODBC diinstal dan dikonfigurasi pada Windows, contoh kode untuk mengimpor lembar kerja "Sheet1" dari buku kerja "C:/Data/ODBCTest.xlsx" akan:
#Define ODBC connection string.connectionStr <- "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls, *.xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb)};DriverId=790;Dbq=C:/Data/ODBCTest.xlsx;DefaultDir=c:/Data;"
#Define ODBC query into workbook. The worksheet name must be followed by '$' and enclosed in [].
testExcel = "SELECT * FROM [Sheet1$]"
#Define ODBC data source for the import using the query and connection string.
excelDS<- RxOdbcData(sqlQuery = testExcel, connectionString=connectionStr)
#Define input workbook and output xdf file.
excelDS_XDF<- RxXdfData("testFromExcel.xdf")
#Import the workbook into the XDF
rxImport(excelDS, excelDS_XDF, overwrite=TRUE)