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Introduction to Google Cloud Run

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There are various serverless compute solutions on the Google Cloud Platfrom; initially it used to be only Appengine and Google Cloud Function. Google Appengine is a solution that allow you to focus on writing up apps and allow Google to take of deployment/scaling/operations. Google Cloud Functions take a step further and allow you as a developer to develop just plain old functions and allow Google to handle the rest of it, thereby making it easier to split your app functionality to parts that require to scale and parts that don’t need to.

Sending ggplot graphs to googleslides

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IMPORTANT: THE FOLLOWING BLOG POST IS OUTDATED.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

Rgoogleslides Updated to v0.2.0-alpha

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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:

Restructuring Rgoogleslides

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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:

Using Service Accounts with RGA

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RGA is one of the packages I often use in my line of work and I use it to extract data from Google Analytics Platform into R. From there, I can easily utilize data manipulation packages such as dplyr and tidyr to get the results I would need before pushing those results back to Googlesheets via the googlesheets R package.

R is an object oriented language?

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Although it is often mentioned in many of the online tutorials and wikis that R is a Object Oriented language, the code examples on the web definitely don’t show too many hints of that. Many of the code tutorials and code examples do not showcase such language features but instead mainly using functions to get things done.