Hello Duncan, Thank you for having a look at this. I tried the code you provided but it failed in the getForm stage. running this:
> tt = getForm("http://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub", + hl ="en", key = "0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE", + single = "true", gid ="0", + output = "csv", + .opts = list(followlocation = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)) Resulted in the following error: Error in curlPerform(url = url, headerfunction = header$update, curl = curl, : SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed Did I miss some step? ----------------Contact Details:------------------------------------------------------- Contact me: tal.gal...@gmail.com | 972-52-7275845 Read me: www.talgalili.com (Hebrew) | www.biostatistics.co.il (Hebrew) | www.r-statistics.com (English) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Duncan Temple Lang <dun...@wald.ucdavis.edu > wrote: > > Thanks David for fixing the early issues. > > The reason for the failure is that the response > from the Web server is a to redirect the requester > to another page, specifically > > > https://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE&single=true&gid=0&output=csv > > Note that this is https, not http, and the built-in URL reading facilities > in R don't suport https. > > > One way to see this is to use look at the headers in your browser (e.g. > Live HTTP Headers), > or to use curl, or the RCurl package > > tt = getForm("http://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub", > hl ="en", key = > "0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE", > single = "true", gid ="0", > output = "csv", > .opts = list(followlocation = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)) > > > The verbose option shows the entire dialog, and tt contains the > text of the CSV document. > > read.csv(textConnection(tt)) > > then yields the data frame > > D. > > > On 4/29/11 10:36 AM, David Winsemius wrote: > > > > On Apr 29, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Tal Galili wrote: > > > >> Hello all, > >> I wish to use read.csv to read a google doc spreadsheet. > >> > >> I try using the following code: > >> > >> data_url <- " > >> > http://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE&single=true&gid=0&output=csv > >> > >> " > >> read.csv(data_url) > >> > >> Which results in the following error: > >> > >> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > >> > >> > >> I'm on windows 7. And the code was tried on R 2.12 and 2.13 > >> > >> I remember trying this a few months ago and it worked fine. > > > > I am always amused at such claims. Occasionally they are correct, but > more often a crucial step has been omitted. In > > this case you have at a minimum embedded line-feeds in your URL string > and have not established a connection, so it > > could not possibly have succeeded as presented. > > > > But now it's time to admit I do not know why it is not succeeding when I > correct those flaws. > > > >> closeAllConnections() > >> data_url <- > > url(" > http://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE&single=true&gid=0&output=csv > ") > > > >> read.csv(data_url) > > Error in open.connection(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > > > >> closeAllConnections() > >> dd <- read.csv(con <- > > url(" > http://spreadsheets0.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?hl=en&hl=en&key=0AgMhDTVek_sDdGI2YzY2R1ZESDlmZS1VYUxvblQ0REE&single=true&gid=0&output=csv > ")) > > > > Error in open.connection(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > > > > > > So, I guess I'm not reading the help pages for `url` and `read.csv` as > well I thought I was. > > > > > >> Any suggestion what might be causing this or how to solve it? > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.