Package 'spud'

Title: Sharepoint upload & download
Description: Enables uploading, downloading and listing of files in sharepoint.
Authors: Robert Ashton [aut, cre], Rich FitzJohn [aut], Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine [cph]
Maintainer: Robert Ashton <[email protected]>
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Version: 0.1.7
Built: 2026-07-02 06:58:20 UTC
Source: https://github.com/reside-ic/spud

Help Index

Create sharepoint connection for downloading data.

Description

Create sharepoint connection for downloading data.

Create sharepoint connection for downloading data.

Public fields

client

A low-level sharepoint client object, which can be used to interact directly with the sharepoint API. This object mostly handles authentication, etc.

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Create sharepoint object for downloading data from sharepoint

Usage
sharepoint$new(sharepoint_url, auth = NULL)
Arguments
sharepoint_url

Root URL of sharepoint site to download from

auth

Authentication data passed to the client

Returns

A new sharepoint object

Method download()

Download data from sharepoint

Usage
sharepoint$download(
  sharepoint_path,
  dest = NULL,
  progress = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE
)
Arguments
sharepoint_path

Path to the resource within sharepoint

dest

Path to save downloaded data to

progress

Display a progress bar during download?

overwrite

Overwrite existing files?

Returns

Path to saved data

Method folder()

Create a folder object representing a sharepoint folder, with which one can list, download and upload files. See sharepoint_folder for more details.

Usage
sharepoint$folder(site, path, verify = FALSE)
Arguments
site

The name of the sharepoint site (most likely a short string)

path

Relative path within that shared site. It seems that "Shared Documents" is a common path that most likely represents a "Documents" collection when viewed in the sharepoint web interface.

verify

Logical, indicating if the site/path combination is valid (slower but safer).

Download a dataset from sharepoint

Description

Download a dataset from sharepoint

Usage

sharepoint_download(
  sharepoint_url,
  sharepoint_path,
  dest = NULL,
  progress = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE
)

Arguments

sharepoint_url

The base URL of sharepoint e.g. https://imperiallondon.sharepoint.com
sharepoint_path

The path to the dataset you want to download - this should include any subsites in the url and should be of the form sites/nested/subsites/docs/path/to/document e.g. if you want to get the file at Data/shape files/example.geojson from the site groupA which is in site facultyA the full path would be sites/facultyA/groupA/docs/Data/shape files/example.geojson You should be able to get this if you locate the data you want to download in a browser and click menu on the RHS of the file name which appears on hover -> Copy link and manually edit to get the file path. See vignette for more details.
dest

Path to location you want to save the data. The default save location is a tempfile with the same file extension as the downloaded file.
progress

If TRUE then HTTP requests will print a progress bar
overwrite

if TRUE then the dest will be ovewritten if it exists (otherwise it an error will be thrown)

Value

Path to downloaded data

Interact with sharepoint folders and their files.

Description

Interact with sharepoint folders and their files.

Interact with sharepoint folders and their files.

Public fields

site

Name of the sharepoint site (readonly)

path

Path of the folder (readonly)

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Create sharepoint_folder object to enable listing, creating downloading and uploading files & folders

Usage
sharepoint_folder$new(client, site, path, verify = FALSE)
Arguments
client

A low-level sharepoint client object, which can be used to interact directly with the sharepoint API.

site

The name of the sharepoint site (most likely a short string)

path

Relative path within that shared site. It seems that "Shared Documents" is a common path that most likely represents a "Documents" collection when viewed in the sharepoint web interface.

verify

Logical, indicating if the site/path combination is valid (slower but safer).

Method files()

List all files within the folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$files(path = NULL)
Arguments
path

Folder relative to this folder, uses this folder if NULL

Method folders()

List all folders within the folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$folders(path = NULL)
Arguments
path

Folder relative to this folder, uses this folder if NULL

Method list()

List all folders and files within the folder; this is a convenience wrapper around the files and folders methods.

Usage
sharepoint_folder$list(path = NULL)
Arguments
path

Folder relative to this folder, uses this folder if NULL

Method delete()

Delete a folder. Be extremely careful as you could use this to delete an entire sharepoint. Deleted files are sent to the recycle bin, so can be restored with relative ease, but it will still be alarming. There is a mechanism to prevent accidental deletion by declaring a file that exists within the folder.

Usage
sharepoint_folder$delete(path, check)
Arguments
path

The path to delete. Use NULL to delete the current folder.

check

A file (not folder) that exists directly within path, used as a method to verify that you really do want to delete this folder (to prevent things like accidental deletion of the entire sharepoint, for example).

Method parent()

Create an object referring to the parent folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$parent(verify = FALSE)
Arguments
verify

Verify that the folder exists (which it must really here)

Method folder()

Create an object referring to a child folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$folder(path, verify = FALSE)
Arguments
path

The name of the folder, relative to this folder

verify

Verify that the folder exists (which it must really here)

Method create()

Create a folder on sharepoint

Usage
sharepoint_folder$create(path)
Arguments
path

Folder relative to this folder

Method download()

Download a file from a folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$download(
  path,
  dest = NULL,
  progress = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE
)
Arguments
path

The name of the path to download, relative to this folder

dest

Path to save downloaded data to. If NULL then a temporary file with the same file extension as path is used. If coderaw() (or any other raw value) then the raw bytes will be returned.

progress

Display httr's progress bar?

overwrite

Overwrite the file if it exists?

Method upload()

Upload a file into a folder

Usage
sharepoint_folder$upload(path, dest = NULL, progress = FALSE)
Arguments
path

The name of the path to upload, absolute, or relative to R's working directory.

dest

Remote path save downloaded data to, relative to this folder. If NULL then the basename of the file is used.

progress

Display httr's progress bar?