Warning: These projects are in the early scoping stages; do not use for anything other than amusement/frustration purposes

What is going on here?

• rexcel
• googlesheets (update coming soon)

These read spreadsheets into a common intermediate format (see linen below). Rather than reading just the data they read formatting and other metadata, unevaluated formulas, etc. They can either return a data.frame or return a linen workbook or worksheet object.

• linen is our general spreadsheet object.

It represents workbooks, worksheets, "views" into worksheets, and formatting information. It eventually will support a variety of common operations on spreadsheets.

• cellranger looks after referencing

Used through out all the other packages, cellranger holds references to regions within worksheets and workbooks.

• jailbreakr attempts to extract non-tabular data from spreadsheets.

We have collected all the Enron corpus in a repository on gitlab. These files can be accessed using remotefile, or you can clone the whole ~1.5GB of files.

We ran rexcel over all 15871 xlsx files in the corpus and have stored linen objects in this gitlab repository. This will be useful (for us) for seeing how Excel is used in the wild.