readDoc: Get the contents of a Google Document

In duncantl/RGoogleDocs: Primitive interface to Google Documents from R

Get the contents of a Google Document

Description

getDocContent fetches the contents of a Google Document. readDoc fetches and parses the document, assuming it is HTML or XML. For Presentation documents, i.e. slides/overheads, the result is the PDF content of the document returned as a raw vector with no intepretation. (See grImport if you really want to do something with it in R.)

Usage

readDoc(doc, con)

Arguments

doc	the name of the document to be retrieved, or a GoogleDocument object obtained via a call to getDocs.
con	the authenticated connection to Google Docs.

Value

getDocContent returns a character string (vector of length 1). readDoc returns the parsed HTML or XML document as an XMLInternalDocument. If the document is a presentation, the result is a PDF.

Author(s)

Duncan Temple Lang

See Also

getDocs getGoogleDocsConnection

Examples

if(exists("GoogleDocsPassword")) {
          # getGoogleDocsConnection("my login", "my password")

  con = getGoogleDocsConnection(names(GoogleDocsPassword), GoogleDocsPassword)
  # getDoc("Many Parts", con)
  getDocContent("Many Parts", con)

  o = readDoc("Introduction to RGoogleDocs", con)

  docs = getDocs(con)
  readDoc(docs[[1]], con)
}

duncantl/RGoogleDocs documentation built on Nov. 23, 2023, 4:22 p.m.