/sheetseeR

A quick and easy interface to Google Docs + SheetSee.js

Primary LanguageR

sheetseeR

This packages provides a quick and easy interface to Sheetsee js, a client-side library for connecting Google Spreadsheets to a website and visualizing the information in tables, maps and charts. The goal is provide a super-easy interface to uploading data into Google docs (or downloading and updating existing datasets) and generating a sheetsee js page with maps, a data browser, or interactive figures.

Package is in alpha and not ready to install.

Installation

devtools::install_github("ropensci/sheetseeR")

Keys

  • First go to google.com/security/, sign in
  • Go to app specific passwords
  • Create a new one (name doesn't matter)
  • Then return to your .rprofile and add:
options("sheetsee" = "YOUR_KEY")

Then you'll be good to go with:

library(sheetseeR)
ssee_auth("karthik.ram@gmail.com")
# In the future you can also just set up your email in your profile