unable to generate Google autharization tokens in rstudioserver about googledrive

[naveenbussari]

It worked after including the line

options(httr_oob_default = TRUE)

Thanks

[jennybc]

I'm glad you've got it working.

I'm curious though: on RStudio Server, gargle (which provide auth functionality for googledrive) should automatically detect that it should use an oauth client of "web" type and that it should use out-of-band auth. Are you setting these things explicitly for a reason? If not, I think perhaps you should try doing less and allow the auto detection to happen. But if this is in response to a failure of auto-detection, I'd be interested to learn more.

[jennybc]

I revisited the issues linked above and now I remember. You do auth in an interactive RStudio session, but then later need that token to work in a cron job. So it makes more sense to me now why you might need to set these options. But I think this is more sensible than what you're currently doing (basically: be consistent about setting gargle options, not a mix of gargle and httr):

options(gargle_oob_default = TRUE, gargle_oauth_client_type = "web")