[R] Reading from Google Docs

Farrel Buchinsky fjbuch at gmail.com
Tue Dec 16 01:47:45 CET 2008 

When I run>getDocs(con)

I get this error:
Error in getDocs(con) : could not find function "xmlParse"

Where should xmlParse be coming from?

You had asked where I got the idea to enter "con$getDocs()". I got it
from run.html. But now that you bring the words "In the future, we
might" to my attention I can see that I should not have tried it.



Farrel Buchinsky
GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870




On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 19:28, Duncan Temple Lang
<duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>
> Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
>>
>> Great. I have previously installed 7zip.
>> It worked well. I installed the files. See below (way below).
>>
>> When I  entered >library(RGoogleDocs)
>> it did not run.
>> So I just ran auth.R
>> Then I was able to run
>> auth <-getGoogleAuth("fjbuch at gmail.com","mypassword")
>> con = getConnection(auth)
>> con$getDocs()
>> all worked until this point when I got
>> Error in con$getDocs : $ operator not defined for this S4 class
>>>
>>> str(con)
>>
>> Formal class 'GoogleDocsConnection' [package ""] with 0 slots
>>  list()
>
>
> If you use
>
>  getDocs(con)
>
> it should work, assuming auth and con are appropriate.
>
> Where did you see that
>
>
>   con$getDocs()
>
> should work?
> In the documentation file run.xml, there is the line
>
> "
> In the future, we might provide an interface that avoids this such
>
> as
>
>  con$getDocs()
> ...
> "
>
> So, as it says, it is in the future.
>
>  D.
>
>
>>
>> I have just seen Prof Brian Ripley's correspondence. I had installed
>> RCurl and XML from the Tinn-R "R controlling:packages" button. It
>> appears to me that I need to check out R-admin manual.
>> Is there a simple generic r script that I could run to determine if my
>> RCurl and XML are running properly?
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> inst                                          <DIR>
>> 12/15/2008 17:27:57
>> R                                             <DIR>
>> 12/15/2008 17:27:57
>> DESCRIPTION                                             777  9/24/2008
>> 12:47:59
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 1 file(s), 2 folder(s)                                  777 bytes
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> doc                                           <DIR>
>> 12/15/2008 17:27:57
>> sampleDocs                                    <DIR>
>> 12/15/2008 17:44:07
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 0 file(s), 2 folder(s)                                    0 bytes
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\doc\
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> basics.html                                           5,867  9/24/2008
>> 11:27:38
>> basics.pdf                                            8,873  9/24/2008
>> 11:30:51
>> basics.xml                                            3,504  9/24/2008
>> 11:27:34
>> GNUmakefile                                              39  9/24/2008
>> 11:24:44
>> run.html                                             14,150  9/24/2008
>> 12:46:41
>> run.pdf                                              13,643  9/24/2008
>> 12:44:39
>> run.xml                                               9,257  9/24/2008
>> 12:44:23
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 7 file(s), 0 folder(s)                               55,333 bytes
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\inst\sampleDocs\
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> SampleDoc.doc                                        22,016  9/24/2008
>> 12:44:23
>> SampleSpreadsheet.xls                                17,408  9/24/2008
>> 12:44:23
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 2 file(s), 0 folder(s)                               39,424 bytes
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> C:\Program Files\R\R-2.7.2\library\RGoogleDocs\R\
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> auth.R                                                8,183  9/24/2008
>> 12:44:23
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 1 file(s), 0 folder(s)                                8,183 bytes
>>
>> ================================================================================
>>
>> Farrel Buchinsky
>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 17:12, Gustavo Carvalho <gustavo.bio+R at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> You can probably extract a .tar.gz using 7zip on Windows.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Gustavo.
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjbuch at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I saw a thread from September 24 in which Duncan Temple Lang told us:
>>>> - The package currently has no Rd files, but there is a brief "user's
>>>> guide". The package is available from
>>>>        http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs
>>>>
>>>> I could not find it by using Tinn-R or RGui's package install tool.
>>>> Then when I went to the website I saw that package is only available
>>>> as
>>>> http://www.omegahat.org/RGoogleDocs/RGoogleDocs_0.1-0.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> To my knowledge tar.gz is only for Linux. Does this mean that I cannot
>>>> run it on a windows machine. Please tell me that there is a way to run
>>>> it on a Windows machine.
>>>>
>>>> Farrel Buchinsky
>>>> GrandCentral Tel: (412) 567-7870
>>>>
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>>
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