install.packages("readxl") library("readxl") setwd("C:/Users/Pablo/Desktop/BioinfoProject") sample_gene <- read_excel("Study Results.xlsx",sheet = 1) factors <- read_excel("Study Results.xlsx",sheet = 2) factors[names(factors)[1:4]] merging = merge(x = sample_gene, y = factors, by = 'sampleID') merging