It Works! Thanks a lot! Its great. What were your "few minor, but important, changes" - in a nutshell. I will not understand unless you describe it as high level issues. Farrel Buchinsky Google Voice Tel: (412) 567-7870
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 19:07, Duncan Temple Lang <dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu>wrote: > > Hi Farrel > > I have taken a look at the problems using RGoogleDocs to read > spreadsheets and was able to reproduce the problem I believe you > were having. A few minor, but important, changes and I can read > spreadsheets again and apparently still other types of documents. > > I have put an updated version of the source of the package with > these changes. It is available from > > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.4-1.tar.gz > > There is a binary for Windows in > http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.4-1.zip > > Hopefully this will cure the problems you have been experiencing. > I'd appreciate knowing either way. > > Thanks, > > D. > > > Farrel Buchinsky 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.
