Yeah, I'm certainly not meaning to belittle your efforts. I wrote something similar (based on jamesjyu's gmailr stuff) for my thesis last year. It's the best wa

Yeah, I'm certainly not meaning to belittle your efforts. I wrote something similar (based on jamesjyu's gmailr stuff) for my thesis last year. It's the best way to do it for relatively simple one-off projects. The first big challenge is definitely just having a shared toolkit, but it's next to impossible to provide backwards-compatible APIs when the Gmail UI changes. Oh... and IMAP. :-/