I think authentication is necessary even if the Google doc is public

[eeholmes]

@emilyhmarkowitz The Readme in the GoogleDrive1 repo implies that authentication is only necessary if the Google Doc is not public, but when I tried to download a public spreadsheet, I was asked to authenticate.

"This code is designed to be run locally (meaning on someone’s computer manually). If the Google Drive folder is private, you need to run the authentication code first before you knit the Rmd file."

This is the code I tried to run. I had to authenticate to get it to run.

url <- "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O69nsVBH8Fb58GWwY1P9LAPL4TY0pVmha1UjohAaK2k"
googledrive::drive_download(url)

Also some examples of just a basic script to download a file would be good to start off.