Terminate all Microsoft Excel processes

Forcefully terminates all running Microsoft Excel processes on Windows.

Usage

xlKill()

Value

invisibly, the exit status returned by taskkill.

Details

This function calls the Windows taskkill command with the /F option. All running Excel processes are terminated immediately, and unsaved changes are lost.

Note

This function is available on Windows only.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
xlKill()
} # }