This is one of the main ways to write data with googlesheets4. This function writes a data frame into a (work)sheet inside a (spread)Sheet. The target sheet is styled as a table:
Special formatting is applied to the header row, which holds column names.
The first row (header row) is frozen.
The sheet's dimensions are set to "shrink wrap" the
data.
If no existing Sheet is specified via ss, this function delegates to
gs4_create() and the new Sheet's name is randomly generated. If that's
undesirable, call gs4_create() directly to get more control.
If no sheet is specified or if sheet doesn't identify an existing sheet,
a new sheet is added to receive the data. If sheet specifies an existing
sheet, it is effectively overwritten! All pre-existing values, formats, and
dimensions are cleared and the targeted sheet gets new values and dimensions
from data.
This function goes by two names, because we want it to make sense in two contexts:
write_sheet()evokes other table-writing functions, likereadr::write_csv(). Thesheethere technically refers to an individual (work)sheet (but also sort of refers to the associated Google (spread)Sheet).sheet_write()is the right name according to the naming convention used throughout the googlesheets4 package.
write_sheet() and sheet_write() are equivalent and you can use either one.
Arguments
- data
A data frame. If it has zero rows, we send one empty pseudo-row of data, so that we can apply the usual table styling. This empty row goes away (gets filled, actually) the first time you send more data with
sheet_append().- ss
Something that identifies a Google Sheet:
its file id as a string or
drive_ida URL from which we can recover the id
a one-row
dribble, which is how googledrive represents Drive filesan instance of
googlesheets4_spreadsheet, which is whatgs4_get()returns
Processed through
as_sheets_id().- sheet
Sheet to write into, in the sense of "worksheet" or "tab". You can identify a sheet by name, with a string, or by position, with a number.
Value
The input ss, as an instance of sheets_id
See also
Other write functions:
gs4_create(),
gs4_formula(),
range_delete(),
range_flood(),
range_write(),
sheet_append()
Other worksheet functions:
sheet_add(),
sheet_append(),
sheet_copy(),
sheet_delete(),
sheet_properties(),
sheet_relocate(),
sheet_rename(),
sheet_resize()
Examples
df <- data.frame(
x = 1:3,
y = letters[1:3]
)
# specify only a data frame, get a new Sheet, with a random name
ss <- write_sheet(df)
#> ✔ Creating new Sheet: zippered-bobolink.
read_sheet(ss)
#> ✔ Reading from zippered-bobolink.
#> ✔ Range df.
#> # A tibble: 3 × 2
#> x y
#> <dbl> <chr>
#> 1 1 a
#> 2 2 b
#> 3 3 c
# clean up
googledrive::drive_trash(ss)
#> File trashed:
#> • zippered-bobolink <id: 1S28TXVHct8gcG2ekESAVLf4FYpp1fYHGixsGIbu4jt8>
# create a Sheet with some initial, placeholder data
ss <- gs4_create(
"sheet-write-demo",
sheets = list(alpha = data.frame(x = 1), omega = data.frame(x = 1))
)
#> ✔ Creating new Sheet: sheet-write-demo.
# write df into its own, new sheet
sheet_write(df, ss = ss)
#> ✔ Writing to sheet-write-demo.
#> ✔ Writing to sheet df.
# write mtcars into the sheet named "omega"
sheet_write(mtcars, ss = ss, sheet = "omega")
#> ✔ Writing to sheet-write-demo.
#> ✔ Writing to sheet omega.
# get an overview of the sheets
sheet_properties(ss)
#> # A tibble: 3 × 8
#> name index id type visible grid_rows grid_columns data
#> <chr> <int> <int> <chr> <lgl> <int> <int> <list>
#> 1 alpha 0 1796393871 GRID TRUE 2 1 <NULL>
#> 2 omega 1 912801732 GRID TRUE 33 11 <NULL>
#> 3 df 2 681316902 GRID TRUE 4 2 <NULL>
# view your magnificent creation in the browser
gs4_browse(ss)
# clean up
gs4_find("sheet-write-demo") %>%
googledrive::drive_trash()
#> File trashed:
#> • sheet-write-demo <id: 1RyQ0qdvuOKg3gDsHATTN-AdiL8AL_OAWx-JHtnmrPd8>