Parse Remotely-Hosted Excel File — parse_remote

Helper function for parsing an Excel file hosted on a website or FTP server.

parse_remote_excel(path, ...)

Arguments

path	The URL or FTP directory of the Excel file.
...	Other arguments to pass to `readxl::read_excel()`

Value

A dataframe.

Note

This function will be defunct once readxl::read_excel() supports reading from more general inputs.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
parse_remote_excel(paste0("https://github.com/",
    "InteragencyEcologicalProgram/Status-and-Trends/blob/",
    "9d1ba8ec3f475e96dbdd7788b45c26fb0fc55b0b/data/",
    "EMPMysidBPUEMatrixAug2019.xlsx?raw=true"),
  sheet = "MysidBPUEMatrix1972-2018", guess_max = 100000)
}