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

[Duncan Temple Lang]

Hi Harlan

 If you install the latest version of RCurl from source via

  install.packages("RCurl", repos = "http://www.omegahat.org/R")

 and that should solve the problem, assuming I have been reproducing the same
 problem you mentioned.


 You haven't mentioned what operating system your are on. If you are on Windows,
 that will pick up the binary version. If you are on the mac, you will have to build
 it from source.


    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
> 
>