Using arules package on datasets that are not inside the package

General
1

If I try to get the data from my excel file like this:

songs_data<-read_excel("file _location/songs.xls")
data(songs_data)

Output:
Warning message:
In data(songs_data) : data set ‘songs_data’ not found

2

If reading of the file succeeded you can see its information with e.g. the head function.
This should show you the first 6 lines of the data.frame.
After that you can apply the functions of the arules package.