I was using one of my favorite R packages today to read data from a google spreadsheet. It would not work. This problem is occurring on all my machines (I use windows) and it appears to be a new problem. I am using Version: 0.4-1 of RGoogleDocs
library(RGoogleDocs)
ps <-readline(prompt="get the password in ")
sheets.con = getGoogleDocsConnection(getGoogleAuth("[email protected]", ps, service ="wise"))
ts2=getWorksheets("OnCall",sheets.con)
And this is what I get after running the last line.
Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding = .encoding) : SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
I did some reading and came across some interesting, but not useful to me at least, information.
When I try to interact with a URL via https, I get an error of the form
Curl: SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK
I got the very big picture message but did not know how to implement the solution in my script. I dropped the following line before getWorksheets.
x = getURLContent("https://www.google.com", ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
That did not work so I tried
ts2=getWorksheets("OnCall",sheets.con,ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
That also did not work.
Interestingly enough, the following line works
getDocs(sheets.con,folders = FALSE)
What do you suggest I try to get it working again? Thanks.