Authentication setup
You’ll need to acquire an API key from AQS. To do so,
epair provides the function get.aqs.key() with
your email as its parameter. After calling get.aqs.key()
check your email to obtain your key. Be sure to confirm your account by
clicking on the link in the email if acquiring a key for the first
time.
epair uses .Renviron to access your email
and key when making calls. A simple way to setup your key and email is
through the usethis package with the following command.
usethis::edit_r_environ()
This will open up the .Renviron file where you can store your email
and key. You MUST store your key and email using the exactformat
aqs_api_key=‘received_key’ and
aqs_email=‘youremail@domain.com’. Otherwise, the package
will assume you haven’t declared your credentials.
Note you also need to restart R to ensure that changes take effect.
If even after restarting R, Sys.getenv(‘aqs_email’) is
returning a null string, you can also try setting the variables with the
Sys.setenv() command as follows
Sys.setenv(aqs_email = “youremail@domain.com”) and
Sys.setenv(aqs_api_key = “received_key”).