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aws.s3

'AWS S3' Client Package

A simple client package for the Amazon Web Services ('AWS') Simple Storage Service ('S3') 'REST' 'API' < https://aws.amazon.com/s3/>.

aws.s3 is a simple client package for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) REST API. While other packages currently connect R to S3, they do so incompletely (mapping only some of the API endpoints to R) and most implementations rely on the AWS command-line tools, which users may not have installed on their system.

To use the package, you will need an AWS account and enter your credentials into R. Your keypair can be generated on the IAM Management Console under the heading Access Keys. Note that you only have access to your secret key once. After it is generated, you need to save it in a secure location. New keypairs can be generated at any time if yours has been lost, stolen, or forgotten.

By default, all cloudyr packages look for the access key ID and secret access key in environment variables. You can also use this to specify a default region or a temporary "session token". For example:

Sys.setenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = "mykey",
           "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = "mysecretkey",
           "AWS_DEFAULT_REGION" = "us-east-1",
           "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN" = "mytoken")

These can alternatively be set on the command line prior to starting R or via an Renviron.site or .Renviron file, which are used to set environment variables in R during startup (see ? Startup).

If you work with multiple AWS accounts, another option that is consistent with other Amazon SDKs is to create a centralized ~/.aws/credentials file, containing credentials for multiple accounts. You can then use credentials from this file on-the-fly by simply doing:

# use your 'default' account credentials
aws.signature::use_credentials()
 
# use an alternative credentials profile
aws.signature::use_credentials(profile = "bob")

Temporary session tokens are stored in environment variable AWS_SESSION_TOKEN (and will be stored there by the use_credentials() function). The aws.iam package provides an R interface to IAM roles and the generation of temporary session tokens via the security token service (STS).

Code Examples

The package can be used to examine publicly accessible S3 buckets and publicly accessible S3 objects without registering an AWS account. If credentials have been generated in the AWS console and made available in R, you can find your available buckets using:

library("aws.s3")
bucketlist()

If your credentials are incorrect, this function will return an error. Otherwise, it will return a list of information about the buckets you have access to.

Buckets

To get a listing of all objects in a public bucket, simply call

get_bucket(bucket = '1000genomes')

Amazon maintains a listing of Public Data Sets on S3.

To get a listing for all objects in a private bucket, pass your AWS key and secret in as parameters. (As described above, all functions in aws.s3 will look for your keys as environment variables by default, greatly simplifying the process of making a s3 request.)

# specify keys in-line
get_bucket(
  bucket = 'my_bucket',
  key = YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY,
  secret = YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
)
 
# specify keys as environment variables
Sys.setenv("AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = "mykey",
           "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = "mysecretkey")
get_bucket("my_bucket")

S3 can be a bit picky about region specifications. bucketlist() will return buckets from all regions, but all other functions require specifying a region. A default of "us-east-1" is relied upon if none is specified explicitly and the correct region can't be detected automatically. (Note: using an incorrect region is one of the most common - and hardest to figure out - errors when working with S3.)

Objects

There are eight main functions that will be useful for working with objects in S3:

  1. s3read_using() provides a generic interface for reading from S3 objects using a user-defined function
  2. s3write_using() provides a generic interface for writing to S3 objects using a user-defined function
  3. get_object() returns a raw vector representation of an S3 object. This might then be parsed in a number of ways, such as rawToChar(), xml2::read_xml(), jsonlite::fromJSON(), and so forth depending on the file format of the object
  4. save_object() saves an S3 object to a specified local file
  5. put_object() stores a local file into an S3 bucket
  6. s3save() saves one or more in-memory R objects to an .Rdata file in S3 (analogously to save()). s3saveRDS() is an analogue for saveRDS()
  7. s3load() loads one or more objects into memory from an .Rdata file stored in S3 (analogously to load()). s3readRDS() is an analogue for saveRDS()
  8. s3source() sources an R script directly from S3

They behave as you would probably expect:

# save an in-memory R object into S3
s3save(mtcars, bucket = "my_bucket", object = "mtcars.Rdata")
 
# `load()` R objects from the file
s3load("mtcars.Rdata", bucket = "my_bucket")
 
# get file as raw vector
get_object("mtcars.Rdata", bucket = "my_bucket")
# alternative 'S3 URI' syntax:
get_object("s3://my_bucket/mtcars.Rdata")
 
# save file locally
save_object("mtcars.Rdata", file = "mtcars.Rdata", bucket = "my_bucket")
 
# put local file into S3
put_object(file = "mtcars.Rdata", object = "mtcars2.Rdata", bucket = "my_bucket")

Installation

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This package is not yet on CRAN. To install the latest development version you can install from the cloudyr drat repository:

# latest stable version
install.packages("aws.s3", repos = c("cloudyr" = "http://cloudyr.github.io/drat"))
 
# on windows you may need:
install.packages("aws.s3", repos = c("cloudyr" = "http://cloudyr.github.io/drat"), INSTALL_opts = "--no-multiarch")

Or, to pull a potentially unstable version directly from GitHub:

if (!require("ghit")) {
    install.packages("ghit")
}
ghit::install_github("cloudyr/aws.s3")

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News

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.3.3

  • put_object() and put_bucket() now expose explicitacl` arguments. (#137)
  • get_acl() and put_acl() are now exported. (#137)
  • Added a high-level put_folder() convenience function for creating an empty pseudo-folder.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.3.2

  • put_bucket() now errors if the request is unsuccessful. (#132, h/t Sean Kross)
  • Fixed a bug in the internal function setup_s3_url() when region = "".

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.3.1

  • DESCRIPTION file fix for CRAN.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.3.0

  • CRAN (beta) release. (#126)
  • bucketlist() gains both an alias, bucket_list_df(), and an argument add_region to add a region column to the output data frame.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.8

  • Exported the s3sync() function. (#20)
  • save_object() now creates a local directory if needed before trying to save. This is useful for object keys contains /.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.7

  • Some small bug fixes.
  • Updated examples and links to API documentation.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.6

  • Tweak region checking in s3HTTP().

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.5

  • Fix reversed argument order in s3readRDS() and s3saveRDS().
  • Fixed the persistent bug related to s3readRDS(). (#59)
  • Updated some documentation.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.4

  • Mocked up multipart upload functionality within put_object() (#80)
  • Use tempfile() instead of rawConnection() for high-level read/write functions. (#128)
  • Allow multiple CommonPrefix values in get_bucket(). (#88)
  • get_object() now returns a pure raw vector (without attributes). (#94)
  • s3sync() relies on get_bucket(max = Inf). (#20)
  • s3HTTP() gains a base_url argument to (potentially) support S3-compatible storage on non-AWS servers. (#109)
  • s3HTTP() gains a dualstack argument provide support for "dual stack" (IPv4 and IPv6) support. (#62)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.3

  • Fixed a bug in get_bucket() when max = Inf. (#127, h/t Liz Macfie)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.2

  • Two new functions - s3read_using() and s3write_using() provide a generic interface to reading and writing objects from S3 using a specified function. This provides a simple and extensible interface for the import and export of objects (such as data frames) in formats other than those provided by base R. (#125, #99)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.1

  • s3HTTP() gains a url_style argument to control use of "path"-style (new default) versus "virtual"-style URL paths. (#23, #118)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.2.0

  • All functions now produce errors when requests fail rather than returning an object of class "aws_error". (#86)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.1.39

  • s3save() gains an envir argument. (#115)

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.1.38

  • get_bucket() now automatically handles pagination based upon the specified number of objects to return. (PR #104, h/t Thierry Onkelinx)
  • get_bucket_df() now uses an available (but unexported) as.data.frame.s3_bucket() method. The resulting data frame always returns character rather than factor columns.

CHANGES to aws.s3 0.1.37

  • Further changes to region vertification in s3HTTP(). (#46, #106 h/t John Ramey)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.36

  • bucketlist() now returns (in addition to past behavior of printing) a data frame of buckets.
  • New function get_bucket_df() returns a data frame of bucket contents. get_bucket() continues to return a list. (#102, h/t Dean Attali)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.35

  • s3HTTP() gains a check_region argument (default is TRUE). If TRUE, attempts are made to verify the bucket's region before performing the operation in order to avoid confusing out-of-region errors. (#46)
  • Object keys can now be expressed using "S3URI" syntax, e.g., object = "s3://bucket_name/object_key". In all cases, the bucketname and object key will be extracted from this string (meaning that a bucket does not need to be explicitly specified). (#100; h/t John Ramey)
  • Fixed several places where query arguments were incorrectly being passed to the API as object key names, producing errors.

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.34

  • Update and rename policy-related functions.

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.33

  • Exported the get_bucket() S3 generic and methods.

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.32

  • Fixed a bug related to the handling of object keys that contained spaces. (#84, #85; h/t Bao Nguyen)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.29

  • Fixed a bug related to the handling of object keys that contained atypical characters (e.g., =). (#64)
  • Added a new function s3save_image() to save an entire workspace.
  • Added a temporary fix for GitHub installation using the DESCRIPTION Remotes field.

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.25

  • Added function s3source() as a convenience function to source an R script directly from S3. (#54)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.23

  • Added support for S3 "Acceleration" endpoints, enabling faster cross-region file transfers. (#52)
  • s3save(), s3load(), s3saveRDS(), and s3readRDS() no longer write to disk, improving performance. (#51)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.22

  • Added new functions s3saveRDS() and s3readRDS(). (h/t Steven Akins, #50)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.21

  • Operations on non-default buckets (outside "us-east-1") now infer bucket region from bucket object. Some internals were simplified to better handle this. (h/t Tyler Hunt, #47)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.18

  • All functions now use snake case (e.g., get_object()). Previously available functions that did not conform to this format have been deprecated. They continue to work, but issue a warning. (#28)
  • Separated authenticated and unauthenticated testthat tests, conditional on presence of AWS keys.
  • Numerous documentation fixes and consolidations.
  • Dropped XML dependency in favor of xml2. (#40)

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.17

  • The structure of an object of class "s3_bucket" has changed. It now is simply a list of objects of class "s3_object" and bucket attributes are stored as attributes to the list.
  • The order of bucket and object names was swapped in most object-related functions and the Bucket name has been added to the object lists returned by getbucket(). This means that bucket can be omitted when object is an object of class "s3_object".

CHANGES TO aws.s3 0.1.1

  • Initial release.

Reference manual

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install.packages("aws.s3")

0.3.11 by Thomas J. Leeper, 14 days ago

https://github.com/cloudyr/aws.s3

Report a bug at https://github.com/cloudyr/aws.s3/issues

Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/aws.s3

Authors: Thomas J. Leeper [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4097-6326>), Boettiger Carl [ctb], Andrew Martin [ctb], Mark Thompson [ctb], Tyler Hunt [ctb], Steven Akins [ctb], Bao Nguyen [ctb], Thierry Onkelinx [ctb]

Documentation:   PDF Manual  

GPL (>= 2) license

Imports utils, tools, httr, xml2, base64enc, digest, aws.signature

Suggests testthat, datasets

Imported by analogsea, aws.cloudtrail, awspack.

Suggested by aws.lambda, aws.transcribe, memoise.

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