Hello there Farrel, I see no one is answering you yet, and I don't have answers to give you, but I did see this thread: http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/help/08/12/10204.html <http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e5/help/08/12/10204.html>That might be of use to you.
Best, Tal ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com/ (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjb...@gmail.com> 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 > > [[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. > [[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.