googledrive is an R package that lets you interact with files on Google Drive programmatically from within R. It provides functions to search, view, upload, download, and manage files stored in your Google Drive account.
The package integrates with the tidyverse ecosystem and returns results in a consistent, structured format (called a “dribble”) that makes it easy to work with Drive file metadata. It handles authentication through the gargle package, supports both personal and shared drives, and provides a full range of file operations including creating, moving, copying, deleting, and sharing files. The package eliminates the need to manually download files from the web interface before working with them in R.
