[R] RGoogleDocs ability to write to spreadsheets broken as of yesterday - CAN PAY FOR FIX

Duncan Temple Lang duncan at wald.ucdavis.edu
Wed Jul 21 18:51:50 CEST 2010


Hi Harlan

  Can you send some code so that we can reproduce the problem.
That will enable me to fix the problem quicker.

  D.

On 7/21/10 8:26 AM, Harlan Harris wrote:
> I unfortunately haven't received any responses about this problem. We
> (the company I work for) are willing to discuss payment to someone who
> is willing to quickly contribute a fix to the RGoogleDocs/RCurl
> toolchain that will restore write access. Please contact me directly if
> you're interested. Thank you,
> 
>  -Harlan Harris
> 
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Harlan Harris <harlan at harris.name
> <mailto:harlan at harris.name>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     I'm using RGoogleDocs/RCurl to update a Google Spreadsheet.
>     Everything worked OK until this morning, when my ability to write
>     into spreadsheet cells went away. I get the following weird error:
> 
>     Error in els[[type + 1]] : subscript out of bounds
> 
>     Looking at the Google Docs API changelog, I see the following:
> 
>     http://code.google.com/apis/spreadsheets/changelog.html
> 
> 
>         Release 2010-01 (July 14, 2010)
> 
>     This is an advanced notice about an upcoming change.
> 
>         * Starting July 19, 2010, all links returned by all Spreadsheets
>           API feeds will use HTTPS. This is being done in the interests
>           of increased security. If you require the use of HTTP, we
>           recommend that you remove the replace |https| with |http| in
>           these links. Another announcement will be made on July 19,
>           2010, when this change goes to production.
> 
> 
>     I suspect this is the problem. Fixing it is above my head, I'm
>     afraid. Could anyone help? This is urgent. Thank you,
> 
>      -Harlan Harris
> 
>



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