Message-ID: <615A279B-3E93-4B5D-BB7E-027FF664FA5B@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-12-01T18:02:25Z
From: Luca Meyer
Subject: Reading .gsheet within R
In-Reply-To: <CAFDcVCR8GYDvHi7Jyw+OMx=T1E9bN44AaVX+qGO8NBrKvsvpqw@mail.gmail.com>
Thank you Henrik & the others that have commented. Accessing the actual online data is what I would need, but apparently this is not yet feasible?
Luca
Il giorno 01/dic/2012, alle ore 04:53, Henrik Bengtsson <hb at biostat.ucsf.edu> ha scritto:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Luca Meyer <lucam1968 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello R-experts,
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>> I would like to know if there is a solution to read files with extension .gsheet directly into R - see http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/gsheet for more info on this file format.
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> AFAIK, those files (*.gsheet, *.gdoc, *.gslides) are just tiny JSON
> files containing references to the online/cloud resource (specifying
> the "url" and the "resource_id"). There are several packages on CRAN
> for parsing JSON files. Accessing the actual online data is a
> different story...
>
> My $0.02
>
> /Henrik
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>> Thank you,
>> Luca
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>> Mr. Luca Meyer
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