Excel file import [R recipe]

[B2oriel]

I have an Excel file in a managed folder, I can't read my file using :

data <- dkuManagedFolderDownloadPath("dsdsJk", "file")

Even using the different options of as = : "raw", "text", "parsed" I get nothing.

[CatalinaS · Accepted solution]

You can read an Excel file from a managed folder using a code like below:

library(dataiku)
library(xlsx)

content <- dkuManagedFolderDownloadPath("hRJwLbQS","xl2.xlsx", as = "raw")
temp_f=tempfile()
writeBin(object=content, con=temp_f)
read.xlsx(temp_f, sheetName="Sheet1")

[B2oriel]

Thank you, everything is working as I expect

[vasilisa_dku]

It's worth pointing out that Dataiku has a methoddkuManagedFolderCopyToLocal to copy files to the temp/file_system directory and then read/write from it. It's less optimal than using dkuManagedFolderDownloadPath  as it copies file instead of reading through a connection but might work for different file formats. 

s3_folder_name = "<FOLDER ID>"
# the path in the folder to retrieve:
s3_file_name = "<FILE NAME>.xlsx"

temp_folder <- tempdir()
print(temp_folder)
# check that the directory in tmp exists
dir.exists(temp_folder)

# Copy to the temp folder
dkuManagedFolderCopyToLocal(s3_folder_name, temp_folder)

# see the copied files
content_temp <-list.files(temp_folder)
print(content_temp)
# Read file from a temporal folder : get a first file from the list
file_path_temp <- file.path(temp_folder,s3_file_name)
data_frame_temp <- read_excel(path=file_path_temp,skip=1)