drive_update {googledrive}

Update an existing Drive file

Description

Update an existing Drive file id with new content ("media" in Drive API-speak), new metadata, or both. To create a new file or update existing, depending on whether the Drive file already exists, see drive_put().

Usage

drive_update(file, media = NULL, ..., verbose = deprecated())

Arguments

file

Something that identifies the file of interest on your Google Drive. Can be a name or path, a file id or URL marked with as_id(), or a dribble.

media

Character, path to the local file to upload.

...

Named parameters to pass along to the Drive API. Has dynamic dots semantics. You can affect the metadata of the target file by specifying properties of the Files resource via .... Read the "Request body" section of the Drive API docs for the associated endpoint to learn about relevant parameters.

verbose

This logical argument to individual googledrive functions is deprecated. To globally suppress googledrive messaging, use options(googledrive_quiet = TRUE) (the default behaviour is to emit informational messages). To suppress messaging in a more limited way, use the helpers local_drive_quiet() or with_drive_quiet().

Value

An object of class dribble, a tibble with one row per file.

See Also

Wraps the files.update endpoint:

• https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/reference/files/update

This function supports media upload:

• https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/manage-uploads

Examples

# Create a new file, so we can update it
x <- drive_example_remote("chicken.csv") %>%
  drive_cp()

# Update the file with new media
x <- x %>%
  drive_update(drive_example_local("chicken.txt"))

# Update the file with new metadata.
# Notice here `name` is not an argument of `drive_update()`, we are passing
# this to the API via the `...``
x <- x %>%
  drive_update(name = "CHICKENS!")

# Update the file with new media AND new metadata
x <- x %>%
  drive_update(
    drive_example_local("chicken.txt"),
    name = "chicken-poem-again.txt"
  )

# Clean up
drive_rm(x)