[comment] export wb_get_comment()

[JanMarvin]

Why does my code not run?

Oh, there already is a function called wb_get_comment().

• export wb_get_thread() too

Also ...

• wb_comment() could be an S3 class, no need for the R6
• I'd like to have something styled, but most ideas are to heavy. Either with third party packages like cli or javascript to create chart bubbles

[olivroy]

Last week, there was an existing workbook with comments and links in it. I couldn't copy the link from Excel. So I did what a normal person would do : load it in R.

and wb$comments became my friend at this moment. So I could see every comment and copy the Urls.

So my suggestion is:

Maybe if dims = NULL, this could error and point to the locations of comments in the sheet?

[JanMarvin]

Hi @olivroy , I picked wb_get_comment() to be in line with wb_add_comment(), but an additional s won’t do any harm I guess.

Could you elaborate the dims = NULL part? Right now all comments from a sheet are selected. And with dims this can be reduced to a selected region of a sheet. Why should we throw an error?

[olivroy]

Ah okay! Sweet. I misread the code, sorry 😞

[JanMarvin]

No worries, happens to me all the time 😄 But I’m not 100 percent sure I like to return everything as a data frame. It makes sense for the internal usage, but users probably would expect something nicer. Maybe I should just ditch the wbComment class and replace it with something easier to digest. I'd like some more styling, but haven’t made up my mind. I’ll think about it a bit more.