I really appreciate the advices and suggestions. But Gail`s information about google docs it`s exactly what I need. It`s amazing. Thank you very much indeed.
Nilza Baroros On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Farrel Buchinsky <fjb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tal Galili <tal.galili <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > > > Hi Nilza, > > I just wrote a more detailed answer to your question in the following > post: > > Google spreadsheets + google forms + R = Easily collecting and importing > > data for analysis< > http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/03/google-spreadsheets- > google-forms-r-easily-collecting-and-importing-data-for-analysis/> > > on Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Nilza BARROS <nilzabarros <at> gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > Hi, R users > > > > > > We can create a form using R? > > > I would like to create a form where the information can be read by R. > > > Itneeds to be updated daily because I have to tabulate the reasons for > > > delays > > > in the generation of numerical models products. > > > There is also a package called RGoogleData that can import data from Google > Spreadsheets (even when they are not public). It has one benefit over > RGoogleDocs; RGoogleData can download a spreadsheet as a csv file to your > harddrive. You can then read the csv file into R - read.csv(). Those steps > can > easily be written into a script so that you do not have to manually futz > with > them each time. The benefit of the csv download is that it is very fast. > Both > the RGoogleDocs and the RGoogleData are slow in reading the spreadsheet > into R. > I understand, but may be wrong, that Google Stores all the data as HTML and > its > API spits it out as xml which these r packages then need to parse out line > by > line. The csv treatment by comparison is instantaneous. > > Only one big problem. As of a few months ago, RGoogleData has stopped > working > for me. I think it is still working for its writer, Adrian Dragulescu. > Adrian > has been very generous with his time in trying to help me. He predicts that > he > will go back to exploring his package once Google updates their API. > > Try it out. I would love to hear what happens. > > http://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/rgoogledata/ > > ______________________________________________ > 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<http://www.r-project.org/posting-guide.html> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Abraço, Nilza Barros [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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