get data from excel online (office 365)

Question

I'm using a microsoft app (from http://portal.office.com ) to translate and stock tweet on an online excel sheet, now I want to read it with R.

The data in excel sheet url https://myagency-my.sharepoint.com/.../tweet.xlsx

I tried:

library(readxl)
read_excel('//companySharepointSite/project/.../ExcelFilename.xlsx', Sheet1', skip=1)`

from this post . It gives:

 Error in sheets_fun(path) : Evaluation error: zip file 

Answer 1

I believe read_excel works only with local files. This might do the trick:

library(xlsx)  
library(httr)
url <- 'https://myagency-my.sharepoint.com/.../tweet.xlsx'  
GET(url, write_disk("excel.xlsx", overwrite=TRUE))  
frmData <- read.xlsx("excel.xlsx", sheetIndex=1, header=TRUE)