getGoogleDocsConnection

From RGoogleDocs v0.7-0 by Duncan Lang

Connect to Google Documents server

These functions provide the mechanism with which to login to Google Docs and create a connection which caches the authentication so that it can be used in subsequent interactions with the Google Docs API within this R session.

If the login and password are not specified in a call to either function, we look for it in the option named GoogleDocsPassword. This should be a vector of length 2 giving the login and password, or alternatively a named character vector of length 1 where the value is the password and the name is the login. If the option is not set, we look in the environment variable GOOGLE_DOCS_PASSWORD. If this is set, its value is used and should be in the form login=value.

Keywords: IO

Usage

getGoogleDocsConnection(..., auth, error = TRUE)
getGoogleAuth(login = getOption("GoogleDocsPassword"), password, service = "writely", appID = "R-GoogleDocs-0.1", error = TRUE)

Arguments

...: arguments that are passed on to getGoogleAuth For "convenience", one can also pass the authentication token returned from explicitly calling getGoogleAuth.
auth: the value returned from a call to getGoogleAuth.
login: the user name/login for the Google account
password: the password for the account corresponding to login
service: the name of the Google service, i.e. writely, wise
appID: unused
error: a logical value indicating whether, if TRUE, to raise an error (i.e. call to stop or just return NULL if error is FALSE.)

Details

Value

An object of class either "GoogleSpreadsheetsConnection" or "GoogleDocsConnection" depending on which service was requested - wise or writely, respectively. This object is actually a Curl handle and can be used in subsequent HTTP requests.

References

http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/AuthForInstalledApps.html

Examples

if(exists("GoogleDocsPassword")) {
   con = getGoogleDocsConnection(names(GoogleDocsPassword), GoogleDocsPassword)
   # for all documents
  con = getGoogleDocsConnection("dtemplelang@gmail.com", "my password")
   # for spreadsheets
  con = getGoogleDocsConnection("dtemplelang@gmail.com", "my password", "wise")

   # Getting auth separately.
  auth = getGoogleAuth("dtemplelang@gmail.com", "my password", "wise")
  con = getGoogleDocsConnection(auth)
  con = getGoogleDocsConnection(auth = auth)
}

Documentation reproduced from package RGoogleDocs, version 0.7-0, License: BSD

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