Download/Import Dropbox File by File's Name

This function lets the user download a file from Dropbox, specifying its name, using a previously created token or with interactive window.

Usage

db_download(
  query,
  local_path = NULL,
  xlsx = TRUE,
  token_dir = NA,
  token_name = "token_pers.rds",
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

query

Search string. This string is split (on spaces) into individual words. Files will be used if they contain all words in the search string.

local_path

Character. Path to save file to. If NULL (the default), saves file to working directory with same name. If not, but a valid folder, file will be saved in this folder with same basename as path. If not NULL and not a folder, file will be saved to this path exactly.

xlsx

Boolean. Is it an Excel file? Can be returned as a list for each tab and not as a file if needed. Will delete downloaded file.

token_dir

Character. RDS with token local directory. You may set to NA if you already set your credentials (see get_creds())

token_name

Character. RDS file name with your token's data.

quiet

Boolean. Keep quiet? If not, show informative messages.

Value

If query returns a .xlsx file and xlsx=TRUE, will return a data.frame. Else, local_path string.

See also

Other Tools: autoline(), bind_files(), bring_api(), chr2num(), db_upload(), export_plot(), export_results(), files_functions(), font_exists(), formatColoured(), formatHTML(), get_credentials(), glued(), grepm(), h2o_selectmodel(), haveInternet(), image_metadata(), importxlsx(), ip_data(), json2vector(), list_cats(), listfiles(), mail_send(), markdown2df(), move_files(), msplit(), myip(), quiet(), read.file(), statusbar(), tic(), try_require(), updateLares(), warnifnot(), what_size()

Other Credentials: db_upload(), get_credentials(), get_tweets(), mail_send(), queryDB(), queryGA(), slackSend(), stocks_file()

Other Dropbox: db_upload()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Download a specific file
db_download("stocksReport.Rmd", local_path = "~/Desktop/generic.Rmd")
# Import an Excel file from Dropbox into a data.frame
df <- db_download("Portfolio LC.xlsx", xlsx = FALSE)
} # }