It Works! Thanks a lot! Its great.

What were your "few minor, but important, changes" - in a nutshell. I will
not understand unless you describe it as high level issues.
Farrel Buchinsky
Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870



On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:07, Duncan Temple Lang
<duncan@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
> > Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
> >
> > Sent from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
> >
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