[R] RGoogleDocs ability to write to spreadsheets broken as of yesterday

[David Scott]

Henrique Dallazuanna wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Harlan Harris <harlan <at> harris.name> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm using RGoogleDocs/RCurl to update a Google Spreadsheet. Everything
>>> worked OK until this morning, when my ability to write into spreadsheet
>>> cells went away. I get the following weird error:
>>>
>>> Error in els[[type + 1]] : subscript out of bounds
>>>
>>> Looking at the Google Docs API changelog, I see the following:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/changelog.html
>>> Release 2010-01 (July 14, 2010)
>>>
>>> This is an advanced notice about an upcoming change.
>>>
>>>    - Starting July 19, 2010, all links returned by all Spreadsheets API
>>>    feeds will use HTTPS. This is being done in the interests of increased
>>>    security. If you require the use of HTTP, we recommend that you remove
>> the
>>>    replace https with http in these links. Another announcement will be
>> made
>>>    on July 19, 2010, when this change goes to production.
>>>
>>> I suspect this is the problem. Fixing it is above my head, I'm afraid.
>> Could
>>> anyone help? This is urgent. Thank you,
>>
>>    This is an Omegahat package (took me a little while to find it). Perhaps
>> you should write to the package maintainer?
>>
>> library(RGoogleDocs)
>> help(package="RGoogleDocs")
>>
>> or, more obscurely:
>>
>> help(package=RGoogleDocs)$info[[1]][9]
>>
>>  (there may be a better way to deal with objects of type "packageInfo"
>> but I can't figure it out right at the moment).
>>
> 
> Maybe:
> packageDescription('RGoogleDocs', fields = 'Author')
> 

 From the News file for 2.11.0:

  o	maintainer() has been added, to give convenient access to the
	name of the maintainer of a package


> 
>>  It looks as though one might be able to fix this by hacking the
>> hard-coded URLs in the code, but as you suggest that might be above
>> your head.
>>
>>  good luck ...
>>     Ben Bolker
>>
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