Package can't load when only Env vars used for user/password

[MarkEdmondson1234]

I put similar to below in my home directory .Renviron file:

GOOGLE_USER = "mark@xxxx.com"
GOOGLE_PASSWORD = '1xxxxxxxx'
GOOGLE_AUTOCONNECT = 'TRUE'

(note no options set) I restarted R, and could reach them via Sys.getenv("GOOGLE_USER") etc.

However, when I tried to load the library, I got this:

> library(gtrendsR)
Creating a generic function for ‘toJSON’ from package ‘jsonlite’ in package ‘googleVis’
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gtrendsR', details:
  call: if (getOption("google.user") != "") usr <- getOption("google.user")
  error: argument is of length zero
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘gtrendsR’

When I set the options myself from the environment vars, it works:

options(google.user = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE_USER"))
options(google.password = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE_PASSWORD"))
library(gtrendsR)

The help file seems to indicate you can use either environment or options, and its all working now, but I guess the above is not intended.

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> library(gtrendsR)
Creating a generic function for ‘toJSON’ from package ‘jsonlite’ in package ‘googleVis’
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gtrendsR', details:
  call: if (getOption("google.user") != "") usr <- getOption("google.user")
  error: argument is of length zero
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘gtrendsR’

Restarting R session...

> library(gtrendsR)
Creating a generic function for ‘toJSON’ from package ‘jsonlite’ in package ‘googleVis’
Error : .onAttach failed in attachNamespace() for 'gtrendsR', details:
  call: if (getOption("google.user") != "") usr <- getOption("google.user")
  error: argument is of length zero
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘gtrendsR’
> options(google.user = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE_USER"))
> options(google.password = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE_PASSWORD"))
> library(gtrendsR)
> gconnect()
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.2.4 (2016-03-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin13.4.0 (64-bit)
Running under: OS X 10.11.3 (El Capitan)

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] gtrendsR_1.3.3

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] zoo_1.7-12       colorspace_1.2-6 scales_0.3.0     googleVis_0.6.0  plyr_1.8.3       tools_3.2.4     
 [7] gtable_0.1.2     RCurl_1.95-4.7   Rcpp_0.12.5      ggplot2_2.1.0    grid_3.2.4       jsonlite_1.0    
[13] munsell_0.4.2    bitops_1.0-6     lattice_0.20-33 

[PMassicotte]

@eddelbuettel Do you have an idea?

[eddelbuettel]

Nope.

Any sane operating system (ie not the one from Redmond) sets $HOME. R, just like any sane program in the Unix tradition, then reads dotfiles from $HOME. (It also reads from current directory, see help(Startup) but that is a digression.)

Now, what do I do? I actually (by convention) set this in ~/.Rprofile but mostly ... because I already set other things there The again I just needed some database settings at work for some tests and stuck those into Renviron.site. Also worked. YMMV.

In short it all works for me...

[MarkEdmondson1234]

this is solved by this https://github.com/PMassicotte/gtrendsR/issues/121

[eddelbuettel]

Good catch, thank you. Should have smelled the bacon when you first reported this.