https://github.com/rsheets/jailbreakr

Get out of Excel free.
https://github.com/rsheets/jailbreakr

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Get out of Excel free.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rsheets/jailbreakr
• Owner: rsheets
• Created: 2016-01-24T05:04:04.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-08-18T02:38:06.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-21T03:34:10.063Z (6 months ago)
• Language: R
• Size: 56.6 KB
• Stars: 89
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 9
• Open Issues: 6
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md

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README

        
# jailbreakr

**Warning: This project is in the early scoping stages; do not use for anything other than amusement/frustration purposes**

Data Liberator.  To extract tabular data people put in nontabular structures in a program designed to hold tables.

![](http://i.giphy.com/SEp6Zq6ZkzUNW.gif)

## Installation

Requires the development version of xml2 (for `xml_find_lgl`) as well as [cellrangr](https://github.com/rsheets/cellranger) and [linen](https://github.com/rsheets/linen).  Chances are you'll want [rexcel](https://github.com/rsheets/rexcel) too.

```r

devtools::install_github(c("hadley/xml2",

                           "rsheets/linen",

                           "rsheets/cellranger",

                           "rsheets/rexcel",

                           "rsheets/jailbreakr"))

```

## Goals

There are two large excel spreadsheet corpora; it would be nice to use these to get a feel for what fraction of spreadsheets we can handle or the range of non-table-like data out there.

![the things people do to data](http://replygif.net/i/514.gif)

The first is the [EUSES corpus](http://openscience.us/repo/spreadsheet/euses.html) of 4,447 spreadsheets (16,853 worksheets).  This is all xls files (rather than xlsx) and therefore need either an [xls -> xlsx conversion](http://bit.ly/1P2rMGr) or support in jailbreakr for xls files.

The second, larger, one is the [Enron corpus](http://www.felienne.com/archives/3634) of 15,770 spreadsheets (79,983)

# Roadmap

* data structure package:

  - linen?  General representation of spreadsheet data, plus some limited low-level operations on that data

  - depends on cell ranger, tibble

  - constructor function

  - print methods

  - subsetting, range extraction etc.

  - plot method - for quickly getting a feel for structure, or a shiny app

  - summary: this has n sheets, no formulae, 3 plots, etc, things about the references between the sheets?

  - where it came from (excel, googlesheet, etc), with filenames, reference ids etc.

  - probably needs references to handle multiple sheets and formulae within them, definitely if we need to do things with plots, but make them immutable at first?

  - md5 or other "id" so that we can see if the upstream source has changed.  This is different for googlesheets where the id is properly baked into the sheet

* low level packages:

  - googlesheets

  - rexcel

  - these depend on linen, and will have to provide things like ids and filenames to satisfy all the features that linen will do.

* jailbreakr

  - uses output in linen format that is provided by googlesheets or rexcel

# Ideas

Can we feed things through openrefine or something?