Note: This post got buried and I never posted it. I haven’t played with R in several months, so I’m not sure if this works anymore.

This assumes you have R downloaded and installed.

Download, install, and configure GSUtil (http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/gsutil_install.html)

Load R. You should see an ugly console :) In the window type

install.packages(c("RCurl", "rjson"))

You will be prompted to select a mirror; find something close to you and continue.

You might be frustrated that there’s no success message:

trying URL 'http://www.revolution-computing.com/cran/bin/macosx/leopard/contrib/2.13/rjson_0.2.5.tgz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 133138 bytes (130 Kb)
opened URL
==================================================
downloaded 130 Kb

The downloaded packages are in
	/var/folders/I3/I3YZ8e5tGOK9CY9LQ98ix++++TI/-Tmp-//RtmpFrtdp3/downloaded_packages

However, if you fail there will be an error message:

> install.packages("seth", dependencies = TRUE)
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘seth’ is not available (for R version 2.13.0)
> install.packages("googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz", repos=NULL, type="source")
Warning: invalid package ‘googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz’
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning message:
In install.packages("googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL,  :
  installation of package 'googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status

Download the Google Predictions API for R

https://code.google.com/p/google-prediction-api-r-client/

Install it

$ mkdir -p ~/R/library
$ mv googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz ~/R/library/
$ R_LIBS_USER="~/R/library"
$ echo 'R_LIBS_USER="~/R/library"' >  $HOME/.Renviron
R CMD INSTALL ~/R/library/googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz


Source your libraries


library(rjson)
library(RCurl)
library(googlepredictionapi)


Some useful links
http://mjaniec.blogspot.com/2011/05/google-prediction-api-v12-for-r.html
https://code.google.com/p/google-prediction-api-r-client/
http://code.google.com/p/r-google-prediction-api-v12/



http://csg.sph.umich.edu/docs/R/localpackages.html



    
  
  • Load R Note: You will see an ugly console.
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    Install the pre-reqs
    

    
    
      
    install.packages(c(“RCurl”, “rjson”))
    
    
    
  
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  • Note: If you have not installed a package from CRAN before, You will  be prompted to select a mirror; find something close to you and continue.
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    Note: A successful install will not yield a success message–it will simply not show an error message.
    
  
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  • Download, install, and configure GSUtil: http://code.google.com/apis/storage/docs/gsutil_install.html
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  • Download the Google Predictions API for R from https://code.google.com/p/google-prediction-api-r-client/
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    Install the plugin Note: I had to do it from the command line because the install failed inside R
    

    
    $ R CMD INSTALL your/path/to/googlepredictionapi_0.1.tar.gz
    
  
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  • Now, you should be able to restart R and see the API listed in the Package Manager
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    From here we source our libraries
    

    
    
      
    library(rjson)
library(RCurl)
library(googlepredictionapi)
    
    
    
  
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  • If the data is already in your Google Storage account, you can begin training the model. I do not have data in GS yet, so I’ve stopped here.
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