Using R with Google Analytics

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I found a great project called r-google-analytics that I'd like to use so I can manipulate GA dat in R at this website http://code.google.com/p/r-google-analytics/. I run this portion of the code: ``` library(RCurl) library(XML) # 1. Create a new Google Analytics API object ga <- RGoogleAnalytics() # 2. Authorize the object with your Google Analytics Account Credentials ga$SetCredentials("INSERT_USER_NAME", "INSERT_PASSWORD") ``` And I get this error message: ``` Error in postForm("https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin", Email = username, : SSL certificate problem, verify that the CA cert is OK. Details: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed ``` Any ideas as to what could be causing the error? Thanks! Kim

Accepted Answer

see http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/FAQ.html for a thorough explanation and particularly (depending on your preference for security):

If you don't have a certificate from an appropriate signing agent, you can suppress verifying the certificate with the ssl.verifypeer option:

x = getURLContent("https://www.google.com", ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)

Using R with Google Analytics

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