Convenience function to read spreadsheet-like files

Currently reads spreadsheets from Google Sheets or from xlsx, csv, or sav files.

read_spreadsheet(
  x,
  sheet = NULL,
  columnDictionary = NULL,
  localBackup = NULL,
  exportGoogleSheet = TRUE,
  flattenSingleDf = FALSE,
  xlsxPkg = c("rw_xl", "openxlsx", "XLConnect"),
  failQuietly = FALSE,
  silent = metabefor::opts$get("silent")
)

Arguments

x

The URL or path to a file.

sheet

Optionally, the name(s) of the worksheet(s) to select.

columnDictionary

Optionally, a dictionary with column names to check for presence. A named list of vectors.

localBackup

If not NULL, a valid filename to write a local backup to.

exportGoogleSheet

If x is a URL to a Google Sheet, instead of using the googlesheets4 package to download the data, by passing exportGoogleSheet=TRUE, an export link will be produced and the data will be downloaded as Excel spreadsheet.

flattenSingleDf

Whether to return the result as a data frame if only one data frame is returned as a result.

xlsxPkg

Which package to use to work with Excel spreadsheets.

failQuietly

Whether to give an error when x is not a valid URL or existing file, or just return NULL invisibly.

silent

Whether to be silent or chatty.

Value

A list of dataframes, or, if only one data frame was loaded and flattenSingleDf is TRUE, a data frame.

Examples

### This requires an internet connection!
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
read_spreadsheet(
  paste0(
    "https://docs.google.com/",
    "spreadsheets/d/",
    "1bHDzpCu4CwEa5_3_q_9vH2691XPhCS3e4Aj_HLhw_U8"
  )
);
} # }