gsheet is a simple package to download Google Sheets (aka Google Docs Spreadsheets) using just the sharing link. Sheets can be downloaded as a data frame, or as plain text to parse manually.
Install from CRAN with:
install.packages('gsheet')Or install the latest development version from github wth:
devtools::install_github("maxconway/gsheet")Download a google sheet as a table with:
library(gsheet)gsheet2tbl('docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo')If you want more control, you might want to use something like:
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.
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:
url<-'docs.google.com/spreadsheets/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo#gid=850032961'b<- gsheet2tbl(url)
This works because this makes the gid, whcih si the sheet identifier, available.If you have problems downloading the first sheet, this can also help too.
