create Excel hyperlink string

Wrapper to create internal hyperlink string to pass to writeFormula()

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