R help - Jul 2010 - RGoogleDocs ability to write to spreadsheets broken as of yesterday

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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Harlan Harris <harlan <at> harris.name> writes:
> 
> 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,

   This is an Omegahat package (took me a little while to find it). Perhaps
you should write to the package maintainer?

library(RGoogleDocs)
help(package="RGoogleDocs")

or, more obscurely:

help(package=RGoogleDocs)$info[[1]][9]

 (there may be a better way to deal with objects of type "packageInfo"
but I can't figure it out right at the moment).
  It looks as though one might be able to fix this by hacking the 
hard-coded URLs in the code, but as you suggest that might be above
your head.

  good luck ...
    Ben Bolker