Connect to Google Sheets in Power BI using R

转载自：https://itsalocke.com/blog/connect-to-google-sheets-in-power-bi-using-r/

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Hello again everyone! Here’s the step by step instructions for using the googlesheets package in R to enable you to get your data from Google Sheets. This latest blog post comes from this video we published a little while ago.

Step 1 - Preparation

Create an authentication token for re-use

Run the following:

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library(googlesheets)
token <- gs_auth(cache = FALSE)
gd_token()
saveRDS(token, file="googlesheets_token.rds")

This springs open a window in your browser, and asks you to choose your preferred google account. You’ll have to choose one, and allow ‘tidyverse-googlesheets’ access to continue.

You should now see a page stating “Authentication complete. Please return to R.”

Step 2 - Add R Script into Power BI using token

Click through the following: + Get data + More + Other + R Script

Into the pop up window, paste the following: (Without wanting to state the obvious…change the relevant file paths to something you want to look at…OR open up that link for a sheet we compiled with loads more great R resources!)

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library(googlesheets)
library(magrittr)
suppressMessages(gs_auth(token = "~/Dropbox/Freelance/Locke_data_files/googlesheets_token.rds", verbose = FALSE))
mySheet<-"https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12hFJQ117Mu-J3MWvO65hgdwNmQLzuXhbCkuYHfoHmZA/edit#gid=881533400"

mySheet %>% 
 gs_url() %>% 
 gs_read() ->
 surveyresults

You will then be able to navigate through your google docs and load them into your Power BI workspace!

If you want to read and combine all your sheets, here’s a handy bit of code to do just that, simply switch it out with the corresponding code in the block above. (Keep all four packages!)

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library(purrr)
library(data.table)

mySheet %>% 
 gs_url() %>% 
 gs_ws_ls() %>% 
 map(~gs_read(gs_url(mySheet),ws=.)) %>% 
 rbindlist(use.names = TRUE, fill=TRUE) ->
 surveyresults

Happy analysing!

Ellen :)