Force Refresh Pivot Tables and Formulae — forceFormulaRefresh • xlsx

Functions to force formula calculation or refresh of pivot tables when the Excel file is opened.

forceFormulaRefresh(file, output = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

forcePivotTableRefresh(file, output = NULL, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

file: the path of the source file where formulae/pivot table needs to be refreshed
output: the path of the output file. If it is NULL then the source file will be overwritten
verbose: Whether to make logging more verbose

Value

Does not return any results

Details

forcePivotTableRefresh forces pivot tables to be refreshed when the Excel file is opened. forceFormulaRefresh forces formulae to be recalculated when the Excel file is opened.

Author

Tom Kwong

Examples

# Patch a file where its pivot tables are not recalculated when the file is opened
if (FALSE) {
forcePivotTableRefresh("/tmp/file.xlsx")
forcePivotTableRefresh("/tmp/file.xlsx", "/tmp/fixed_file.xlsx")
}
# Patch a file where its formulae are not recalculated when the file is opened
if (FALSE) {
forceFormulaRefresh("/tmp/file.xlsx")
forceFormulaRefresh("/tmp/file.xlsx", "/tmp/fixed_file.xlsx")
}