library(XLConnect)

WB<-loadWorkbook("C:/Users/aguntupalli/Desktop/Data/2015_NC.xlsx")
wbData<-readWorksheet(WB,sheet=1)
clearSheet(WB,sheet=1)
writeWorksheet(WB,data=wbData[1:50,],sheet=1,header=TRUE)
saveWorkbook(WB,file="C:/Users/aguntupalli/Desktop/Data/testFile.xlsx")

library(xlsx)
setwd("C:/Users/aguntupalli/Desktop/Data")
download.file(url="http://www.va.gov/vetdata/docs/GDX/GDX_FY15.xlsx",destfile="2
015.xlsx",mode="wb")
data1<-read.xlsx("2015.xlsx", sheetIndex=29, header = TRUE)
write.xlsx(data1,file="2015_NC.xlsx",row.names=F)