| uploadDoc {RGoogleDocs} | R Documentation |
These functions allow the caller to manipulate the collection of documents in the Google Docs account. One can upload a document from the local machine. And one can remove or delete a document from the remote repository.
uploadDoc(content, con, name, type = as.character(findType(content)),
binary = FALSE, asText = FALSE, ...)
deleteDoc(doc, con = getConnection(auth), auth)
content |
the name of a local file or the actual content of a document to be uploaded. |
doc |
the name of the Google document to be removed. |
con |
the CURL connection to the Google Docs API which has been
authenticated. See getGoogleDocsConnection. |
name |
the name of the new document to be created (or the document to be replaced). |
type |
the type of document. This can be the MIME type (e.g. "text/csv") or the short hand, e.g. "csv", "odt", ..., capitalized or uncapitalized. The type is matched in the vector DocTypeExtensions. |
binary |
a logical value indicating whether the content being uploaded is binary or not. |
asText |
a logical indicating whether the value of content
is to be treated as the content to be uploaded (TRUE) or
the name of a file (FALSE). |
... |
additional arguments to be passed to the curlPerform call. |
auth |
the auth token returned from a call to getGoogleAuth and used to initialize a connection. |
uploadDoc returns an object of class GoogleDocument
describing the newly uploaded document.
deleteDoc returns 0 if the operation succeeded or a CURL error
if it failed.
Duncan Temple Lang
if(exists("GoogleDocsPassword")) {
# getGoogleDocsConnection("my login", "my password")
con = getGoogleDocsConnection(names(GoogleDocsPassword), GoogleDocsPassword)
x = "1, 2, 3\n4, 5, 6\n"
uploadDoc(x, con, name = "direct csv", type = "csv")
deleteDoc("Untitled Presentation", con)
}