sheets_id function

sheets_id class

sheets_id is an S3 class that marks a string as a Google Sheet's id, which the Sheets API docs refer to as spreadsheetId.

Any object of class sheets_id also has the drive_id

class, which is used by googledrive for the same purpose. This means you can provide a sheets_id to googledrive functions, in order to do anything with your Sheet that has nothing to do with it being a spreadsheet. Examples: change the Sheet's name, parent folder, or permissions. Read more about using googlesheets4 and googledrive together in vignette("drive-and-sheets"). Note that a sheets_id object is intended to hold just one id, while the parent class drive_id can be used for multiple ids.

as_sheets_id() is a generic function that converts various inputs into an instance of sheets_id. See more below.

When you print a sheets_id, we attempt to reveal the Sheet's current metadata, via gs4_get(). This can fail for a variety of reasons (e.g. if you're offline), but the input sheets_id is always revealed and returned, invisibly.

as_sheets_id(x, ...)

Arguments

• x: Something that contains a Google Sheet id: an id string, a drive_id, a URL, a one-row dribble, or a googlesheets4_spreadsheet.
• ...: Other arguments passed down to methods. (Not used.)

as_sheets_id()

These inputs can be converted to a sheets_id:

• Spreadsheet id, "a string containing letters, numbers, and some special characters", typically 44 characters long, in our experience. Example: 1qpyC0XzvTcKT6EISywvqESX3A0MwQoFDE8p-Bll4hps.

• A URL, from which we can excavate a spreadsheet or file id. Example: "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BzfL0kZUz1TsI5zxJF1WNF01IxvC67FbOJUiiGMZ_mQ/edit#gid=1150108545".

• A one-row dribble, a "Drive tibble" used by the googledrive package. In general, a dribble can represent several files, one row per file. Since googlesheets4 is not vectorized over spreadsheets, we are only prepared to accept a one-row dribble.

  • googledrive::drive_get("YOUR_SHEET_NAME")

    is a great way to look up a Sheet via its name.

  • gs4_find("YOUR_SHEET_NAME") is another good way to get your hands on a Sheet.

• Spreadsheet meta data, as returned by, e.g., gs4_get(). Literally, this is an object of class googlesheets4_spreadsheet.

Examples

mini_gap_id <- gs4_example("mini-gap")
class(mini_gap_id)
mini_gap_id

as_sheets_id("abc")

See Also

googledrive::as_id