Delete one or more (work)sheets

Deletes one or more (work)sheets from a (spread)Sheet.

sheet_delete(ss, sheet)

Arguments

ss

Something that identifies a Google Sheet:

• its file id as a string or drive_id

• a URL from which we can recover the id

• a one-row dribble, which is how googledrive represents Drive files

• an instance of googlesheets4_spreadsheet, which is what gs4_get() returns

Processed through as_sheets_id().

sheet

Sheet to delete, in the sense of "worksheet" or "tab". You can identify a sheet by name, with a string, or by position, with a number. You can pass a vector to delete multiple sheets at once or even a list, if you need to mix names and positions.

Value

The input ss, as an instance of sheets_id

See also

Makes an DeleteSheetsRequest:

• https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/reference/rest/v4/spreadsheets/request#DeleteSheetRequest

Other worksheet functions: sheet_add(), sheet_append(), sheet_copy(), sheet_properties(), sheet_relocate(), sheet_rename(), sheet_resize(), sheet_write()

Examples

if (gs4_has_token()) {
  ss <- gs4_create("delete-sheets-from-me")
  sheet_add(ss, c("alpha", "beta", "gamma", "delta"))

  # get an overview of the sheets
  sheet_properties(ss)

  # delete sheets
  sheet_delete(ss, 1)
  sheet_delete(ss, "gamma")
  sheet_delete(ss, list("alpha", 2))

  # get an overview of the sheets
  sheet_properties(ss)

  # clean up
  gs4_find("delete-sheets-from-me") %>%
    googledrive::drive_trash()
}
#> ✔ Creating new Sheet: delete-sheets-from-me.
#> ✔ Adding 4 sheets to delete-sheets-from-me:
#> • alpha
#> • beta
#> • gamma
#> • delta
#> ✔ Deleting 1 sheet from delete-sheets-from-me:
#> • Sheet1
#> ✔ Deleting 1 sheet from delete-sheets-from-me:
#> • gamma
#> ✔ Deleting 2 sheets from delete-sheets-from-me:
#> • alpha
#> • beta
#> File trashed:
#> • delete-sheets-from-me <id: 16Vn4MeKTXm9PXoM40-AyrS0COZTwK4nn8y9xHjYS5lk>