Error: access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000

[nba2020]

Hello, I've just opened an Alpaca account and trying to setup a paper trading connection in R with the below code:

Sys.setenv('APCA-API-KEY-ID' = 'PKCW8xxxxxxxxxI4U2SQJ')
Sys.setenv('APCA-API-SECRET-KEY' = 'CW1ZxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxK1QucMKI')
get_account()

However, I'm getting the following error in R console

$code
[1] 40110000
$message
[1] "access key verification failed : access key not found (Code = 40110000)

[yogat3ch]

A couple of questions come to mind:

• Have you set up and fully verified an account with Alpaca?
• Have you received confirmation from Alpaca that it's been verified? I think that API access is dependent upon verification. Are you running Rstudio? If so you might want to set these parameters globally. You can do so by finding the R user root directory Sys.getenv('R_USER') navigating to that folder, and provided that "View Hidden Files" is enabled in your File Options for the OS there should be a file called .Renviron. You can edit this with a text editor and add your ID and key(s) as follows such that these keys persist across sessions. You'll need to restart Rstudio for the changes to take effect. :

  APCA-PAPER-API-KEY-ID = "..."
  APCA-PAPER-API-SECRET-KEY = "..."
  APCA-LIVE-API-KEY-ID = "..."
  APCA-LIVE-API-SECRET-KEY = "..."

  It also appears that the documentation needs updating to reflect these changes.

[nba2020]

Thank you @yogat3ch. I eventually managed to connect for paper trading with the below:

Sys.setenv('APCA-PAPER-API-KEY-ID' = 'PKOxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx2CG')
 Sys.setenv('APCA-PAPER-API-SECRET-KEY' = 'pumxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxdY')
 get_account()

[jagg19]

hey @nba2020,

@yogat3ch hit it on the head with everything he said! Thanks to you both for pointing this out and to yoga for the pull request :)