Wow.
Dont you get to name it on me or something  (like the RPackageGoogleAjayDoc
?) Just kidding
This is fabulous and the reason this community is so innovative

Now if only someone can create a package for me to use R from Amazon EC2 and
be free of the  damn RAM problem forever ............................to
create it as a SaaS.

Regards,

Ajay
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:29 PM, Duncan Temple Lang <
duncan@wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:

>
> The command line app is fine, although there are some potential security
> issues or annoyances with a smooth work flow.
>
> But it would be more flexible and powerful to do it directly in R.
> And we don't need to know or program in C. The RCurl (https, getForm() and
> postForm()) and XML packages provide all we need.
>
> It took a couple of hours of reading the Google documentation,
> designing and writing the R code and _testing_, but in relatively
> few lines of code, the RGoogleDocs "package" enables an R user
> to query, delete, download and upload documents to her Google account.
> This was one of the motivations for developing the XML and RCurl packages,
> i.e. to be able to quickly develop utilities in R to
> communicate with Web "apps".  So Ajay's suggestion was a nice
> exercise to see if the packages do make it easy.
>
> 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
>
> For binary files, you will want to grab a beta-version of RCurl
> at http://www.omegahat.org/Prerelease/RCurl_0.91-0.tar.gz
>
>  D.
>
> Barry Rowlingson wrote:
>
>> 2008/9/23 Ajay ohri <ohri2007@gmail.com>:
>>
>>  By outputting PDF directly to a Google Doc, it becomes light and portable
>>> for people to view and collaborate on projects  in different parts of the
>>> world.
>>> If you extend this to Google spreadsheets this functionality is
>>> especially
>>> useful for financial reporting or marketing metrics reports or
>>> collaborative
>>> presentations to be made.
>>>
>>
>>  There's command-line tools (written in python, but probably in other
>> languages elsewhere) to do this:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/gdatacopier/
>>
>>  their example is:
>>
>> ./gdoc-cp.py --username someone@gmail.com --import --local
>> files/doc.txt --title "New Document"
>>
>>  So all you need to do is call that from R with system() and wrap it
>> up in some R functions.
>>
>> Barry
>>
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>>
>


-- 
Regards,

Ajay Ohri
http://tinyurl.com/liajayohri

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