googledrive stores the metadata for one or more Drive files or
shared drives as a dribble. It is a "Drive
tibble" with one row per file or shared drive
and, at a minimum, these columns:
name: a character column containing file or shared drive namesid: a character column of file or shared drive idsdrive_resource: a list-column, each element of which is either a Files resource or a Drives resource object. Note there is no guarantee that all documented fields are always present. We do check if thekindfield is present and equal to one ofdrive#fileordrive#drive.
The dribble format is handy because it exposes the file name,
which is good for humans, but keeps it bundled with the file's unique id
and other metadata, which are needed for API calls.
In general, the dribble class will be retained even after
manipulation, as long as the required variables are present and of the
correct type. This works best for manipulations via the dplyr and vctrs
packages.