create Excel hyperlink string

Wrapper to create internal hyperlink string to pass to writeFormula(). Either link to external urls or local files or straight to cells of local Excel sheets.

makeHyperlinkString(sheet, row = 1, col = 1, text = NULL, file = NULL)

Arguments

sheet

Name of a worksheet

row

integer row number for hyperlink to link to

col

column number of letter for hyperlink to link to

text

display text

file

Excel file name to point to. If NULL hyperlink is internal.

See also

writeFormula()

Examples

## Writing internal hyperlinks
wb <- createWorkbook()
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet1")
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet2")
addWorksheet(wb, "Sheet 3")
writeData(wb, sheet = 3, x = iris)

## External Hyperlink
x <- c("https://www.google.com", "https://www.google.com.au")
names(x) <- c("google", "google Aus")
class(x) <- "hyperlink"

writeData(wb, sheet = 1, x = x, startCol = 10)


## Internal Hyperlink - create hyperlink formula manually
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  x = '=HYPERLINK("#Sheet2!B3", "Text to Display - Link to Sheet2")',
  startCol = 3
)

## Internal - No text to display using makeHyperlinkString() function
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  startRow = 1,
  x = makeHyperlinkString(sheet = "Sheet 3", row = 1, col = 2)
)

## Internal - Text to display
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  startRow = 2,
  x = makeHyperlinkString(
    sheet = "Sheet 3", row = 1, col = 2,
    text = "Link to Sheet 3"
  )
)

## Link to file - No text to display
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  startRow = 4,
  x = makeHyperlinkString(
    sheet = "testing", row = 3, col = 10,
    file = system.file("extdata", "loadExample.xlsx", package = "openxlsx")
  )
)

## Link to file - Text to display
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  startRow = 3,
  x = makeHyperlinkString(
    sheet = "testing", row = 3, col = 10,
    file = system.file("extdata", "loadExample.xlsx", package = "openxlsx"),
    text = "Link to File."
  )
)

## Link to external file - Text to display
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1",
  startRow = 10, startCol = 1,
  x = '=HYPERLINK(\\"[C:/Users]\\", \\"Link to an external file\\")'
)

## Link to internal file
x = makeHyperlinkString(text = "test.png", file = "D:/somepath/somepicture.png")
writeFormula(wb, "Sheet1", startRow = 11, startCol = 1, x = x)

if (FALSE) {
saveWorkbook(wb, "internalHyperlinks.xlsx", overwrite = TRUE)
}