[R] Reading .gsheet within R

[Henrik Bengtsson]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Luca Meyer <lucam1968 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello R-experts,
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> I would like to know if there is a solution to read files with extension .gsheet directly into R - see http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/gsheet for more info on this file format.

AFAIK, those files (*.gsheet, *.gdoc, *.gslides) are just tiny JSON
files containing references to the online/cloud resource (specifying
the "url" and the "resource_id").  There are several packages on CRAN
for parsing JSON files.  Accessing the actual online data is a
different story...

My $0.02

/Henrik

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