https://github.com/maxconway/gsheet

Download Google Sheets to R
https://github.com/maxconway/gsheet

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Download Google Sheets to R

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/maxconway/gsheet
• Owner: maxconway
• Created: 2015-03-05T13:58:14.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-07T14:34:45.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-28T10:33:31.777Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 52.7 KB
• Stars: 55
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.Rmd

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README

        
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output: github_document

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```{r, echo = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(

  collapse = TRUE,

  comment = "#>",

  fig.path = "README-"

)

```

# gsheet

[![Travis-CI Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/maxconway/gsheet.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/maxconway/gsheet)

[![CRAN_Status_Badge](http://www.r-pkg.org/badges/version/gsheet)](https://cran.r-project.org/package=gsheet)

gsheet is a simple package to download [Google Sheets](https://www.google.com/sheets/about/ (aka Google Docs Spreadsheets) using just the sharing link. Sheets can be downloaded as a data frame, or as plain text to parse manually. 

## Installation

Install from CRAN with:

```{r, eval=FALSE}

install.packages('gsheet')

```

Or install the latest development version from github with:

```{r, eval=FALSE}

devtools::install_github("maxconway/gsheet")

```

## Getting started

Download a google sheet as a table with:

```{r, eval=FALSE}

library(gsheet)

gsheet2tbl('docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo')

```

## Advanced

### More control

If you want more control, you might want to use something like:

```{r, eval=FALSE}

url <- 'docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo'

a <- gsheet2text(url, format='csv')

b <- read.csv(a, stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

```

This way the table can be cleaned before parsing, and different options can be used in parsing.

### Downloading other sheets

If you want to download a sheet other than the first, you have to use the direct url, copied from the address bar, like so:

```{r, eval=FALSE}

url <- 'docs.google.com/spreadsheets/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo#gid=850032961'

b <- gsheet2tbl(url)

```

This works because this makes the `gid`, which is the sheet identifier, available.

If you have problems downloading the first sheet, this can also help too.