Rgoogleslides on Experiment, Fail, Learn, Repeat

Sending ggplot graphs to googleslides again

Sun, 07 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000

There was a change to the Google Slides API that resulted in an inability to upload images from Google Drive into Google Slides programmatically. Refer to the following issue on the rgoogleslides github repo - https://github.com/hairizuanbinnoorazman/rgoogleslides/issues/28.

RGoogleslides - using your own account client id and secret

Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

NOTE: BEFORE READING THIS - ALL SCREENSHOTS BELOW ARE TAKEN SOMETIME IN OCTOBER 2021. THE UI MAY CHANGE IN THE FUTURE - USE THIS AS A ROUGH GUIDE AND NOT AS ABSOLUTE TRUTH

Matching object ids in elements on a Googleslide

Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:00:00 +0000

While attempting to play around with object ids via the rgoogleslides package, the main issue I got was to quickly understand which object id referred to which element on the slide?

Rgoogleslides Updated to v0.2.0-alpha

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The rgoogleslides package is being upgraded with a quite a big change in methodogy. Refer to the following release notes for more detailed information.

https://github.com/hairizuanbinnoorazman/rgoogleslides/releases/tag/v0.2.0-alpha

The previous design package suffer from several design flaws, some of which would be detailed below:

Sending ggplot graphs to googleslides

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

IMPORTANT:
THE FOLLOWING BLOG POST IS OUTDATED. THERE IS AN UPDATE TO GOOGLESLIDES API WHICH DISABLE USAGE OF GOOGLE DRIVE IMAGES. NOW ALL IMAGES HAS TO BE FROM PUBLIC SOURCES. THERE IS A FEATURE REQUEST TICKET CREATED TO ADD THIS FUNCTIONALITY BACK BUT THERE IS A HIGH LIKELIHOOD IT WONT BE BACK FOR A LONG TIME

Restructuring Rgoogleslides

Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

In the initial draft of the rgoogleslides package, there were several wrapper functions that serve to immediately call the Google Slides API immediately after it is being used. Some of the examples are below:

Googleslides R Package in the Making

Tue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Some time late last year, the Googleslides API was announced by Google. This was a pretty exciting piece of news; one that took so long to come.

Slides API announced by Google!

Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Earlier this year, Google announced a couple of new APIs for the set of Google Products in its productivity and office suite, namely the Google Slides API

https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/05/new-ways-to-keep-data-flowing-between.html

It has been a long time but ever since the announcement in the Google IO earlier this year, I’ve been anticipating for the arrival of the API and it’s already here!!