[R] Modifying output to Google Docs

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Tue Sep 23 19:19:21 CEST 2008


2008/9/23 Ajay ohri <ohri2007 at gmail.com>:
> Hi List,
> Graphical output to PDF's ,RTF ,CSV is known through R.
> Can it be modified for outputting to Google Docs (which is basically
> uploaded files ,published to become html pages)
>
> Is there any package on this ?

 Do you basically mean an R implementation of the Google Data APIs:

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/clientlibs.html

 or at least, that part of the API for dealing with google documents?

http://code.google.com/apis/documents/developers_guide_protocol.html

 That would be very interesting... something like:

 library(google)
 g=google("username","password")
 d=data.frame(x=1:10,y=runif(10))
 googleSendData(g, d)

 it might be easier to start by hooking into one of the other language
client libs (java, python) instead of trying to write one in native R
from the start. Although there's XML handling for R and the protocol
appears to be based on that....

 Something to do in those long winter nights ahead in the northern
hemisphere perhaps...

Barry



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