title: Import the desired cells or cell range from .xlsx file into R data.frame using readxl package range
body: <p>I am using readxl R package to read my .xlsx excel sheet, when I use range function, it shows me an error:</p>
  
  <pre><code>in read_excel("C:/Data/Digital/Actual.xlsx", range = "D11:E20",  :   
  unused argument (range = "D11:E20")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My code is: </p>
  
  <pre><code>X &lt;- read_excel("C:/Data/Digital/Actual.xlsx",range="D11:E20", col_names = FALSE, skip = 0)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Along with <code>readxl</code>, I have installed </p>
  
  <pre><code>library(cellranger)
  library(Rcpp)
  library(tibble)
  library(tidyverse)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also I am followin the guidelines stated in-
  <a href="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/readxl/readxl.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/readxl/readxl.pdf</a></p>