Usage of Google Docs for this----- PDFs especially Graphical PDFs can be a bit heavy. If sending by email to other users, they may find it difficult to open ,download etc (older computers or low bandwidth). 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. Now all we need is someone who knows enough C to do it.I am willing to help as much as I can. The only language I am really good at is (embarrassingly ) SAS Regards, Ajay On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Ajay ohri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am India based. Winters aren't long at all. > > > I dont have that hot programming skills in C or R packages so need help. > Maybe we can get Google on our side this way . They are supposed to have > some good stats package too. > > Ajay > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Barry Rowlingson < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 2008/9/23 Ajay ohri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > Hi List, >> > Graphical output to PDF's ,RTF ,CSV is known through R. >> > Can it be modified for outputting to Google Docs (which is basically >> > uploaded files ,published to become html pages) >> > >> > Is there any package on this ? >> >> Do you basically mean an R implementation of the Google Data APIs: >> >> http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/clientlibs.html >> >> or at least, that part of the API for dealing with google documents? >> >> http://code.google.com/apis/documents/developers_guide_protocol.html >> >> That would be very interesting... something like: >> >> library(google) >> g=google("username","password") >> d=data.frame(x=1:10,y=runif(10)) >> googleSendData(g, d) >> >> it might be easier to start by hooking into one of the other language >> client libs (java, python) instead of trying to write one in native R >> from the start. Although there's XML handling for R and the protocol >> appears to be based on that.... >> >> Something to do in those long winter nights ahead in the northern >> hemisphere perhaps... >> >> Barry >> > > > > -- > Regards, > > Ajay Ohri > http://tinyurl.com/liajayohri > > > -- Regards, Ajay Ohri http://tinyurl.com/liajayohri [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
