[R] Have you used RGoogleDocs and RGoogleData?

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
> It Works! Thanks a lot! Its great.

Thanks for letting me know. Glad that fixed things for you.

> 
> What were your "few minor, but important, changes" - in a nutshell. I will
> not understand unless you describe it as high level issues.

Basically, recognizing the type of a document, e.g. a spreadsheet
or word processing document or generic document.
The changes made the detection more robust or more consistent
with any changes at Google.

  D.

> Farrel Buchinsky
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> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:07, Duncan Temple Lang
> <duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu>wrote:
> 
>> Hi Farrel
>>
>>  I have taken a look at the problems using RGoogleDocs to read
>> spreadsheets and was able to reproduce the problem I believe you
>> were having. A few minor, but important, changes and I can read
>> spreadsheets again and apparently still other types of documents.
>>
>> I have put an updated version of the source of the package with
>> these changes. It is available from
>>
>>  http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.4-1.tar.gz
>>
>> There is a binary for Windows  in
>>  http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.4-1.zip
>>
>> Hopefully  this will cure the problems you have been experiencing.
>> I'd appreciate knowing either way.
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>   D.
>>
>>
>> Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
>>> Both of these applications fulfill a great need of mine: to read data
>>> directly from google spreadsheets that are private to myself and one or
>> two
>>> collaborators. Thanks to the authors. I had been using RGoogleDocs for
>> the
>>> about 6 months (maybe more) but have had to stop using it in the past
>> month
>>> since for some reason that I do not understand it no longer reads google
>>> spreadsheets. I loved it. Its loss depresses me. I started using
>> RGoogleData
>>> which works.
>>>
>>> I have noticed that both packages read data slowly. RGoogleData is much
>>> slower than RGoogleDocs used to be. Both seem a lot slower than if one
>>> manually downloaded a google spreadsheet as a csv and then used read.csv
>>> function - but then I would not be able to use scripts and execute
>> without
>>> finding and futzing.
>>>
>>> Can anyone explain in English why these packages read slower than a csv
>>> download?
>>> Can anyone explain what the core difference is between the two packages?
>>> Can anyone share their experience with reading Google data straight into
>> R?
>>> Farrel Buchinsky
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>>>
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