Is there a good R API for accessing Google Docs?

Question

I\'m using R for data analysis, and I\'m sharing some data with collaborators via Google docs. Is there a simple interface that I can use to access a R data.frame object to and

Answer 1

I just wrote another package to download Google Docs spreadsheets. Its much simpler than the alternatives, since it just requires the URL (and that 'share by link' is enabled).

Try it:

install.packages('gsheet')
library(gsheet)
gsheet2tbl('docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1I9mJsS5QnXF2TNNntTy-HrcdHmIF9wJ8ONYvEJTXSNo')

More detail is here: https://github.com/maxconway/gsheet