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


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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
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