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laurenm
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Write Excel to Sharepoint using R Script

Hi,

 

I'll preface this by saying I do not know any R script. I was looking for a way to automate exporting data from PowerBI to Excel (which I'll then try to automate to get emailed to a client) and came across the following simple logic -


    # 'dataset' holds the input data for this script
    install.packages("writexl")
    library("writexl")
    write_xlsx(dataset, "f:/Local Name/Test Folder/data_export.xlsx")

 

It works well and drops a file in the local folder. I do not have a personal gateway however so I can't schedule it in the PBI service. I wanted to try Sharepoint instead.
I have already seen the following article -

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45948534/saving-files-to-sharepoint-folder-from-r

But, again, I know zero on R script so I don't know how the solution code is supposed to be formatted or fit into my little four line setup.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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lbendlin
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What's your rationale for attempting to do this in Power BI?  Have you considered using Power Automate instead, or Powershell?

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