R code on Google docs

Question

I\'m aware that you can publish spreadsheets on Google docs and then import them in R. However, let\'s say I have a function or some code I want to read in R (like in the sourc

Answer 1

It is most easily done with Dropbox - see here http://thebiobucket.blogspot.co.at/2012/05/source-r-script-from-dropbox.html

like so:

source("http://dl.dropbox.com/s/c18lcwnnrodsevt/test_dropbox_source.R")

But you can either do it with Googledocs, like here http://thebiobucket.blogspot.co.at/2011/11/how-to-run-r-scripts-directly-out-of.html#more

library(RCurl)
setwd(tempdir())
destfile = "test_google_docs.txt"
x = getBinaryURL("https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=0B2wAunwURQNsMDViYzllMTMtNjllZS00ZTc4LTgzMzEtNDFjMWQ3MTUzYTRk", followlocation = TRUE, ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
writeBin(x, destfile, useBytes = TRUE)
source(paste(tempdir(), "/test_google_docs.txt", sep = ""))