I really appreciate the advices and suggestions.
But Gail`s information about google docs  it`s exactly what I need.
It`s amazing.
Thank you very much indeed.

Nilza Baroros
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch@gmail.com> wrote:

> Tal Galili <tal.galili <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > Hi Nilza,
> > I just wrote a more detailed answer to your question in the following
> post:
> > Google spreadsheets + google forms + R = Easily collecting and importing
> > data for analysis<
> http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/03/google-spreadsheets-
> google-forms-r-easily-collecting-and-importing-data-for-analysis/>
>
> on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nilza BARROS <nilzabarros <at> gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi, R users
> > >
> > > We can create a form using R?
> > > I would like to create a form where the information can be read by R.
> > > Itneeds to be updated daily because I have to tabulate the reasons for
> > > delays
> > > in the generation of numerical models products.
>
>
> There is also a package called RGoogleData that can import data from Google
> Spreadsheets (even when they are not public). It has one benefit over
> RGoogleDocs; RGoogleData can download a spreadsheet as a csv file to your
> harddrive. You can then read the csv file into R - read.csv(). Those steps
> can
> easily be written into a script so that you do not have to manually futz
> with
> them each time. The benefit of the csv download is that it is very fast.
> Both
> the RGoogleDocs and the RGoogleData are slow in reading the spreadsheet
> into R.
> I understand, but may be wrong, that Google Stores all the data as HTML and
> its
> API spits it out as xml which these r packages then need to parse out line
> by
> line. The csv treatment by comparison is instantaneous.
>
> Only one big problem. As of a few months ago, RGoogleData has stopped
> working
> for me. I think it is still working for its writer, Adrian Dragulescu.
> Adrian
> has been very generous with his time in trying to help me. He predicts that
> he
> will go back to exploring his package once Google updates their API.
>
> Try it out. I would love to hear what happens.
>
> http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rgoogledata/
>
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Abraço,
Nilza Barros

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