Farrel Buchinsky wrote: > It Works! Thanks a lot! Its great.
Thanks for letting me know. Glad that fixed things for you. > > What were your "few minor, but important, changes" - in a nutshell. I will > not understand unless you describe it as high level issues. Basically, recognizing the type of a document, e.g. a spreadsheet or word processing document or generic document. The changes made the detection more robust or more consistent with any changes at Google. D. > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
