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The idea of this package is to provide a high level interface to Google's Google+ social network. As of now, functions related to data retrieval are available. The authentication (beyond using an API key) and posting messages parts of the API are not yet implemented.

As a high-level interface between R and Google+, this package is aimed at social media and researchers. Google does not provide an API to retrieve the following relation ships without full authentication, this package is not yet suitable for social network analysis.

On the social media side, this package can be used to retrieve posts, a post's popularity (comments, +1s, reshares) and the profiles of entities. Espescially interesting might be the retrieval of profiles that interacted with certain posts.

This package is designed as modular as possible with separating harvest and parsing functions. Users can use their own parsing functions if required.

This section describes briefly how to obtain a Google+ API key.

Go to the Google Developers Console at https://console.developers.google.com/project.
Create a new project and open it.
In the menu, choose APIs & auth.
Choose Google+ API on the next screen.
Activate it by clicking On.
Choose credentials from the submenu.
Click Create new key and write it down. This is your API key.