createGoogleGadget: Create a Google Gadget

In jburos/GoogleVis: Interface between R and the Google Chart Tools

Description

Create a Google Gadget based on a Google Visualisation Object

Usage

createGoogleGadget(gvis)

Arguments

gvis	an object of class 'gvis', e.g. output of a googleVis visualisation functions.

Value

createGoogleGadget returns a Google Gadget XML string.

Note

Google Gadgets can be embedded in various Google products, for example as part of a Google Code wiki page, Blogger or Google Sites. In all cases the XML gadget file has to be hosted online, e.g. using Google Docs.

In Blogger the gadgets can be embedded via the design tab, and in a Google Sites via the menu "Insert" -> "More gadgets ..." -> "Add gadget ULR".

In a Google Code wiki the gadget can be embedded via

<wiki:gadget url="http://example.com/gadget.xml" height="200" border="0" />

You find examples on the googleVis project site: http://code.google.com/p/google-motion-charts-with-r/wiki/GadgetExamples

Author(s)

Markus Gesmann

References

For more information about Google Gadgets see: https://developers.google.com/gadgets/

See Also

See also as print.gvis, cat

Examples

M <- gvisMotionChart(Fruits, idvar="Fruit", timevar="Year")
gdgt <- createGoogleGadget(M)
cat(gdgt)

jburos/GoogleVis documentation built on May 18, 2019, 9:19 p.m.