[R] Reading from Google Docs
Duncan Temple Lang
duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu
Tue Dec 16 01:56:26 CET 2008
Farrel Buchinsky wrote:
> When I run>getDocs(con)
>
> I get this error:
> Error in getDocs(con) : could not find function "xmlParse"
>
> Where should xmlParse be coming from?
From the XML package.
>
> 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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