googlesheet: Register a Google Sheet
In googlesheets: Manage Google Spreadsheets from R

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

The googlesheets package must gather information on a Google Sheet from the API prior to any requests to read or write data. We call this registering the sheet and store the result in a googlesheet object. Note this object does not contain any sheet data, but rather contains metadata about the sheet. We populate a googlesheet object with information from the worksheets feed and, if available, also from the spreadsheets feed. Choose from the functions below depending on the type of sheet-identifying input you will provide. Is it a sheet title, key, browser URL, or worksheets feed (another URL, mostly used internally)?

gs_title(x, verbose = TRUE)

gs_key(x, lookup = NULL, visibility = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

gs_url(x, lookup = NULL, visibility = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

gs_ws_feed(x, lookup = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

gs_gs(x, visibility = NULL, verbose = TRUE)

`x`	sheet-identifying information; a character vector of length one holding sheet title, key, browser URL or worksheets feed OR, in the case of `gs_gs` only, a `googlesheet` object
`verbose`	logical; do you want informative messages?
`lookup`	logical, optional. Controls whether `googlesheets` will place authorized API requests during registration. If unspecified, will be set to `TRUE` if authorization has previously been used in this R session, if working directory contains a file named `.httr-oauth`, or if `x` is a worksheets feed or `googlesheet` object that specifies "public" visibility.
`visibility`	character, either "public" or "private". Consulted during explicit construction of a worksheets feed from a key, which happens only when `lookup = FALSE` and `googlesheets` is prevented from looking up information in the spreadsheets feed. If unspecified, will be set to "public" if `lookup = FALSE` and "private" if `lookup = TRUE`. Consult the API docs for more info about visibility

A registered googlesheet will contain information on:

sheet_key the key of the spreadsheet
sheet_title the title of the spreadsheet
n_ws the number of worksheets contained in the spreadsheet
ws_feed the "worksheets feed" of the spreadsheet
updated the time of last update (at time of registration)
reg_date the time of registration
visibility visibility of spreadsheet (Google's confusing vocabulary); actually, does not describe a property of spreadsheet itself but rather whether requests will be made with or without authorization
is_public logical indicating visibility is "public" (meaning unauthenticated requests will be sent), as opposed to "private" (meaning authenticated requests will be sent)
author the name of the owner
email the email of the owner
links data.frame of links specific to the spreadsheet
ws a data.frame about the worksheets contained in the spreadsheet

A googlesheet object will contain this information from the spreadsheets feed if it was available at the time of registration:

alt_key alternate key; applies only to "old" sheets

Since the spreadsheets feed contains private user data, googlesheets must be properly authorized to access it. So a googlesheet object will only contain info from the spreadsheets feed if lookup = TRUE, which directs us to look up sheet-identifying information in the spreadsheets feed.

a googlesheet object

googlesheets documentation built on May 2, 2019, 1:57 p.m.