[R-sig-Geo] Access to google drive account using RGoogleDocs

[Roger Bivand]

It appears that there are ongoing DDOS incidents affecting DNS providers 
and through them the services you mention; see:

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/10/21/135241/several-sites-including-twitter-spotify-paypal-nytimes-suffering-outage----dyn-dns-under-ddos-attack-update

so I'd wait until things calm down before drawing conclusions.

Roger

On Fri, 21 Oct 2016, chris english wrote:

> Paolo,
>
> I saw your post and was just anticipating sharing some data with colleagues
> in New Zealand, and I believe that
> between two weeks ago and now, github has changed some Apache Server
> settings so that me, sitting in Cyprus can no longer
> access, though if I went in through my wife's VPN and appeared to be in
> NYC, it might work. So, at the moment
> I can't even get into github using devtools to check, but I believe that
> your 'error' has to do with your locale 'it' as against where
> github servers are and a new filter. I could, of course, be wrong on all
> counts, but when I arrive NYC next week I'll
> check and report.
>
> I realize that this seems somewhat far afield of your question regarding
> RGoogleDocs, but I've been noticing a segmentation
> in accessibility in Amazon, Google (at times), and now github which is
> completely inaccessible. So perhaps it is a matter of contracting
> a VPN service. As I say, I'll check in NY and report.
>
> Chris
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paolo Piras <paolo.piras at uniroma3.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I'm not sure if this topic could be appropriate here as it is not properly
>> geostatistical but maybe someone could help me
>>
>> I have a shared space on google drive with some colleagues; I would like
>> to access there from R and to list files in the folders and eventually to
>> load some data into R.
>>
>> I know that RGoogleDocs package allows it but it seems not working when I
>> try to login using
>>
>> auth = getGoogleAuth("mygmail at gmail.com","mypasword",service="wise")
>> I have:
>> "Error: not found"
>>
>> I found an old post where other people experienced the same problem but a
>> solution was not present there.
>> Maybe there are other packages such as googlesheets but my primary purpose
>> is to list files present in the folder.
>> Anyway...thanks in advance for any hint
>> All the best
>> Paolo
>>
>>
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