Argument x is the document name and d the document key.
dl_from_dropbox <- function(x, key) {
require(RCurl)
bin <- getBinaryURL(paste0("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/", key, "/", x),
ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
con <- file(x, open = "wb")
writeBin(bin, con)
close(con)
message(noquote(paste(x, "read into", getwd())))
}
# Example:
dl_from_dropbox("GViewer_Embeds.txt", "06fqlz6gswj80nj")
shell.exec("GViewer_Embeds.txt")
PS: Also see this R-package for interfacing with Dropbox
Do you know how can I upload file to dropbox using R? I would be very grateful for help.
ReplyDeleteCheck this: https://github.com/karthikram/rDrop
ReplyDeleteThanks for pointing this out! I had been wondering about this for awhile. I modified it a bit to create a function for downloading plain-text data into R: http://christophergandrud.blogspot.com/2013/04/dropbox-r-data.html
ReplyDeleteThanks in return for your informative blog-article on Dropbox - I very much enjoyed reading it! And I'm keen to check the repmis package!
DeleteRegards,
Kay