[R] Reading from Google Docs

[Farrel Buchinsky]

Great. I have previously installed 7zip.
It worked well. I installed the files. See below (way below).

When I  entered >library(RGoogleDocs)
it did not run.
So I just ran auth.R
Then I was able to run
auth <-getGoogleAuth("fjbuch at gmail.com","mypassword")
con = getConnection(auth)
con$getDocs()
all worked until this point when I got
Error in con$getDocs : $ operator not defined for this S4 class
> str(con)
Formal class 'GoogleDocsConnection' [package ""] with 0 slots
 list()

I have just seen Prof Brian Ripley's correspondence. I had installed
RCurl and XML from the Tinn-R "R controlling:packages" button. It
appears to me that I need to check out R-admin manual.
Is there a simple generic r script that I could run to determine if my
RCurl and XML are running properly?
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\
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inst                                          <DIR>
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R                                             <DIR>
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DESCRIPTION                                             777  9/24/2008
12:47:59
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1 file(s), 2 folder(s)                                  777 bytes
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\
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doc                                           <DIR>
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sampleDocs                                    <DIR>
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0 file(s), 2 folder(s)                                    0 bytes
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\doc\
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basics.html                                           5,867  9/24/2008
11:27:38
basics.pdf                                            8,873  9/24/2008
11:30:51
basics.xml                                            3,504  9/24/2008
11:27:34
GNUmakefile                                              39  9/24/2008
11:24:44
run.html                                             14,150  9/24/2008
12:46:41
run.pdf                                              13,643  9/24/2008
12:44:39
run.xml                                               9,257  9/24/2008
12:44:23
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7 file(s), 0 folder(s)                               55,333 bytes
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\sampleDocs\
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SampleDoc.doc                                        22,016  9/24/2008
12:44:23
SampleSpreadsheet.xls                                17,408  9/24/2008
12:44:23
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2 file(s), 0 folder(s)                               39,424 bytes
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C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\R\
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auth.R                                                8,183  9/24/2008
12:44:23
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1 file(s), 0 folder(s)                                8,183 bytes
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Farrel Buchinsky
GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870



On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 17:12, Gustavo Carvalho <gustavo.bio+R at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> You can probably extract a .tar.gz using 7zip on Windows.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gustavo.
>
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us:
> > - The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's
> > guide". The package is available from
> >         http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs
> >
> > I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool.
> > Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available
> > as
> > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.1-0.tar.gz
> >
> > To my knowledge tar.gz is only for Linux. Does this mean that I cannot
> > run it on a windows machine. Please tell me that there is a way to run
> > it on a Windows machine.
> >
> > Farrel Buchinsky
> > GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
> >
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