Arugment Error in Google Sheets Custom Function - google-maps-api-3

I created a custom script in Google Sheets using Retrieving location address based on place name and city in Google Spreadsheet. Its is awesome! I wanted to modify the syntax to use the lat long instead of the city and state. I came up with the following:
function mapAddress(SiteName,LatLong) {
var Radius = '100';
var API_KEY = 'XXXXXX';
var url = 'https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=' +
SiteName + '&location=' + LatLong + '&radius=' + Radius + '&key=' + API_KEY;
var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(url);
var json = response.getContentText();
obj = JSON.parse(json);
addr = obj.results[0].formatted_address;
return addr;
}
Unfortunately I get an invalid argument in line 6 even though it creates a url that I can post in a browser and get valid results.
Invalid argument:
https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/place/textsearch/json?query=BurgerKIng&location= 35.221997,-101.831297&radius=100&key=XXXXXX
(line 6).
I have tried encoding the url but nothing helps. I am a newbie coder but this is about to drive me nuts. Would you be kind enough to help?

For posterity and to close the question: you noted in a comment that there was a space in the source data, resulting in a space after the = in the URL. Removing this resolved the issue.

The answer was "could it be theres a space in location= 35.." as I mentioned in my comment. You can accept this as the answer for others to see.

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Import text file to R and change it's format

I have a data in text file. The example of the text file looks like this:
"vLatitude ='23.8145833';
vLongitude ='90.4043056';
vcontents ='LRP: LRPS</br>Start of Road From the End of Banani Rail Crossing Over Pass</br>Division:Gazipur</br>Sub-Division:Tongi';
vLocations = new Array(vcontents, vLatitude, vLongitude);
locations.push(vLocations);"
Can I change it to like this in R?
eg.
latitute longtitude contents
23.8145833 90.4043056 LRP: LRPS Start...Tongi
Solution 1
That looks a lot like javascript code. Execute the javascript (using a web browser) and save the result to JSON, then open the file with R with jsonlite.
With your example, create this file and save it as my_page.html:
<html>
<header>
<script>
// Initialize locations to be able to push more values in it
// probably not required with your full code
var locations = [];
vLatitude ='23.8145833';
vLongitude ='90.4043056';
vcontents ='LRP: LRPS</br>Start of Road From the End of Banani Rail Crossing Over Pass</br>Division:Gazipur</br>Sub-Division:Tongi';
vLocations = new Array(vcontents, vLatitude, vLongitude);
locations.push(vLocations);
// convert locations to json
var jsonData = JSON.stringify(locations);
// actually write the json to file
function download(content, fileName, contentType) {
var a = document.createElement("a");
var file = new Blob([content], {type: contentType});
a.href = URL.createObjectURL(file);
a.download = fileName;
a.click();
}
download(jsonData, 'export_json.txt', 'text/plain');
</script>
</header>
<body>
Download should start automatically. You can look at the web console for errors.
</body>
</html>
When you open it with your web browser it should "download" a file, that you can open with R:
jsonlite::read_json("export_json.txt",simplifyVector = TRUE)
One problem is that the javascript code is created an array without names. So the names are not exported. I don't see how you could make javascript export it.
Solution 2
Instead of relying on a browser to execute the javascript code, you could do it directly in R with a javascript engine. It should give you the same result, but makes communication between the two easier.
Solution 3
If the file really looks like that all along, you might be able to remove the javascript lines that organize the arrays, and only keep the lines that define variables. In R, the symbols = and ; are technically valid, it's not too hard to rewrite the javascript into R code. Note this solution could be very fragile depending on what else is in your javascript code!
js_script <- "var locations = [];
vLatitude ='23.8145833';
vLongitude ='90.4043056';
vcontents ='LRP: LRPS</br>Start of Road From the End of Banani Rail Crossing Over Pass</br>Division:Gazipur</br>Sub-Division:Tongi';
vLocations = new Array(vcontents, vLatitude, vLongitude);
locations.push(vLocations);
// convert locations to json
var jsonData = JSON.stringify(locations);" %>%
str_split(pattern = "\n", simplify=TRUE) %>%
as.character() %>%
str_trim()
# Find the lines that look like defining variables
js_script <- js_script[str_detect(js_script, pattern = "^\\w+ ?= ?'.*' ?;$")]
# make it into an R expression
r_code <- str_remove(js_script, ";$") %>%
paste(collapse = ",")
r_code <- paste0("c(", r_code, ")")
# Execute
eval(str2expression(r_code))

DoGet with multiple parameters not being recognized

I'm currently trying to connect a Lua Script with a GS WebApp. The connection is working but due to my lack of knowledge in GScripting I'm not sure why it isn't saving my data correctly.
In the Lua side I'm just passing in a hard-code a random name and simple numerical userid.
local HttpService = game:GetService("HttpService")
local scriptID = scriptlink
local WebApp
local function updateSpreadSheet ()
local playerData = (scriptID .. "?userid=123&name:Jhon Smith")
WebApp = HttpService:GetAsync(playerData)
end
do
updateSpreadSheet()
end
On the Google Script side i'm only saving the data on the last row and then add the value of the userid and the name.
function doGet(e) {
console.log(e)
// console.log(f)
callName(e.parameter.userid,e.parameter.name);
}
function callName(userid,name) {
// Get the last Row and add the name provided
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow() + 1,1).setValues([userid],[name]);
}
However, the only data the script is saving is the name, bypassing the the userid for reasons I have yet to discover.
setValues() requires a 2D array and range dimensions should correspond to that array. The script is only getting 1 x 1 range and setValues argument is not a 2D array. Fix the syntax or use appendRow
sheet.getRange(sheet.getLastRow() + 1,1,1,2).setValues([[userid,name]]);
//or
sheet.appendRow([userid,name])
References:
appendRow

Every possible combination of lists in google earth engine

I want to get possible combinations of two sets of lists in google earth engine, but my code did not works.
var Per1= ee.Array([[0.1,0.5,0.8],[0.4,0.5,0.2]])
var pre = PercFin1.toList()
var CC=ee.List([1,2,3]);
var ZZ = pre.map(function(hh){
var Per11 = ee.List(pre).get(hh);
var out = CC.zip(Per11);
return out;
});
print (ZZ)
The error I get is:
List.get, argument 'index': Invalid type. Expected: Integer. Actual: List.
Thanks in advance
I don't know if this is what you want, but it looks like you've got the right idea but made an incidental mistake: hh is not an index into pre but an element of it.
I modified and simplified the last part of your code (along with changing PercFin1 to Per1, which I assume was a typo):
var ZZ = pre.map(function(hh){
return CC.zip(hh);
});
print(ZZ);
The result of this is
[
[[1,0.1],[2,0.5],[3,0.8]],
[[1,0.4],[2,0.5],[3,0.2]]
]
which is what I understand you want — each row in Per1 individually zipped with CC.

.Net Core 3 Preview SequenceReader Length Delimited Parsing

I'm trying to use SequenceReader<T> in .Net Core Preview 8 to parse Guacamole Protocol network traffic.
The traffic might look as follows:
5.error,14.some text here,1.0;
This is a single error instruction. There are 3 fields:
OpCode = error
Reason = some text here
Status = 0 (see Status Codes)
The fields are comma delimited (semi-colon terminated), but they also have the length prefixed on each field. I presume that's so that you could parse something like:
5.error,24.some, text, with, commas,1.0;
To produce Reason = some, text, with, commas.
Simple comma delimited parsing is simple enough to do (with or without SequenceReader). However, to utilise the length I've tried the following:
public static bool TryGetNextElement(this ref SerializationContext context, out ReadOnlySequence<byte> element)
{
element = default;
var start = context.Reader.Position;
if (!context.Reader.TryReadTo(out ReadOnlySequence<byte> lengthSlice, Utf8Bytes.Period, advancePastDelimiter: true))
return false;
if (!lengthSlice.TryGetInt(out var length))
return false;
context.Reader.Advance(length);
element = context.Reader.Sequence.Slice(start, context.Reader.Position);
return true;
}
Based on my understanding of the initial proposal, this should work, though also could be simplified I think because some of the methods in the proposal make life a bit easier than that which is available in .Net Core Preview 8.
However, the problem with this code is that the SequenceReader does not seem to Advance as I would expect. It's Position and Consumed properties remain unchanged when advancing, so the element I slice at the end is always an empty sequence.
What do I need to do in order to parse this protocol correctly?
I'm guessing that .Reader here is a property; this is important because SequenceReader<T> is a mutable struct, but every time you access .SomeProperty you are working with an isolated copy of the reader. It is fine to hide it behind a property, but you'd need to make sure you work with a local and then push back when complete, i.e.
var reader = context.Reader;
var start = reader.Position;
if (!reader.TryReadTo(out ReadOnlySequence<byte> lengthSlice,
Utf8Bytes.Period, advancePastDelimiter: true))
return false;
if (!lengthSlice.TryGetInt(out var length))
return false;
reader.Advance(length);
element = reader.Sequence.Slice(start, reader.Position);
context.Reader = reader; // update position
return true;
Note that a nice feature of this is that in the failure cases (return false), you won't have changed the state yet, because you've only been mutating your local standalone clone.
You could also consider a ref-return property for .Reader.

Reformatting date in google spreadsheet

I'm setting up a spreadsheet for someone else with a form to enter data.
One of the columns is supposed to hold a date. The input date format is like this example: "Jan 26, 2013" (there will be a lot of copy & paste involved to collect data, so changing the format at input step is not a real option).
I need this date column to be sortable, but the spreadsheet doesn't recognize this as a date but simply as a string. (It would recognize "Jan-26-2013", I've tried.)
So I need to reformat the input date.
My question is: how can I do this? I have looked around and google apps script looks like the way to go (though I haven't found a good example of reformatting yet).
Unfortunately my only programming experience is in Python, and of intermediate level. I could do this in Python without a problem, but I don't know any JavaScript.
(My Python approach would be:
splitted = date.split()
newdate = "-".join([splitted[0], splitted[1][:-1], splitted[2]])
return newdate
)
I also don't know how I'd go about linking the script to the spreadsheet - would I attach it to the cell, or the form, or where? And how? Any link to a helpful, understandable tutorial etc. on this point would help greatly.
Any help greatly appreciated!
Edit: Here's the code I ended up with:
//Function to filter unwanted " chars from date entries
function reformatDate() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var startrow = 2;
var firstcolumn = 6;
var columnspan = 1;
var lastrow = sheet.getLastRow();
var dates = sheet.getRange(startrow, firstcolumn, lastrow, columnspan).getValues();
newdates = []
for(var i in dates){
var mydate = dates[i][0];
try
{
var newdate = mydate.replace(/"/g,'');
}
catch(err)
{
var newdate = mydate
}
newdates.push([newdate]);
}
sheet.getRange(startrow, firstcolumn, lastrow, columnspan).setValues(newdates)
}
For other confused google-script Newbies like me:
attaching the script to the spreadsheet works by creating the script from within the spreadsheet (Tools => Script Editor). Just putting the function in there is enough, you don't seem to need a function call etc.
you select the trigger of the script from the Script Editor (Resources => This Project's Triggers).
Important: the script will only work if there's an empty row at the bottom of the sheet in question!
Just an idea :
If you double click on your date string in the spreadsheet you will see that its real value that makes it a string instead of a date object is this 'Jan 26, 2013 with the ' in front of the string that I didn't add here...(The form does that to allow you to type what you want in the text area, including +322475... for example if it is a phone number, that's a known trick in spreadsheets cells) You could simply make a script that runs on form submit and that removes the ' in the cells, I guess the spreadsheet would do the rest... (I didn't test that so give it a try and consider this as a suggestion).
To remove the ' you can simply use the .replace() method **
var newValue = value.replace(/'/g,'');
here are some links to the relevant documentation : link1 link2
EDIT following your comment :
It could be simpler since the replace doesn't generate an error if no match is found. So you could make it like this :
function reformatDate() {
var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet();
var dates = sheet.getRange(2, 6, sheet.getLastRow(), 1).getValues();
newdates = []
for(var i in dates){
var mydate = dates[i][0];
var newdate = mydate.replace(/"/g,'');
newdates.push([newdate]);
}
sheet.getRange(2, 6, sheet.getLastRow(), 1).setValues(newdates)
}
Also, you used the " in your code, presumably on purpose... my test showed ' instead. What made you make this choice ?
Solved it, I just had to change the comma to dot and it worked

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