googleAnalyticsR_tutorial.R

library(googleAnalyticsR)
library(ggplot2)

#Authorize Google Analytics R- this will open a webpage
#You must be logged into your Google Analytics account on your web browser
ga_auth()

#Use the Google Analytics Management API to see a list of Google Analytics accounts you have access to
my_accounts <- google_analytics_account_list()
View(my_accounts)

#Use my_accounts to find the viewId. Make sure to replace this with your viewId.
my_id <- 94579701

#set date variables for dyanmic date range
start_date <- "60daysAgo"
end_date <- "yesterday"

#Page View Query
df1 <- google_analytics_4(my_id, 
                          date_range = c("2016-12-10", "2017-02-07"),
                          metrics = c("pageviews"),
                          dimensions = c("pagePath"))

#Session Query - Uses start_date and end_date
df2 <- google_analytics_4(my_id, 
                          date_range = c(start_date, end_date),
                          metrics = c("sessions"),
                          dimensions = c("date"))

#graph sessions by date
ggplot(data=df2, aes(x=date, y=sessions)) +
  geom_line(stat="identity")

Ryan, I'm brand new to programming languages and R. I was watching your tutorial http://www.ryanpraski.com/google-analytics-r-tutorial/vid and actually had all my accounts in a tible! (That was a major accomplishment, even if I then got a permission error; something was right because I had 486 Analytics Accounts piped into R!)

Also, I was getting something about deprecated something or other. Anyway, my machine froze, I lost my work and I'm starting all over. I see there are great instructions along with the video I hadn't noticed. Just going to run this script this time, instead of doing each step from the video, lol.

2019-09-16 13:53:32> Downloaded [1000] rows from a total of [5521]. Warning message: 'google_analytics_4' is deprecated. Use 'google_analytics' instead. See help("Deprecated") and help("googleAnalyticsR-deprecated").

Just trying to figure out the Deperecated message.

Thanks so much Ryan!