R/doAuth.R

In RAdwords: Loading Google Adwords Data into R

#' Invoke the Authentication Process with Google
#' 
#' This function starts the authentication process with Google. 
#' Note that this functions needs user interaction.
#' 
#' @param save logical denotes whether authentication information should be saved on disk. Defaults to TRUE.
#' @seealso \code{\link{getAuth}},\code{\link{loadToken}}
#' @export
doAuth <- function(save = T){
  # do user interaction to store credentials in list
  # does not expire
  if(file.exists(".google.auth.RData")){
    load(".google.auth.RData")
  } else{
    credentials <- getAuth()  
    access_token <- loadToken(credentials)
    # credentials can be saved in workspace 
    # for use with cron jobs etc
    google_auth <- list()
    google_auth$credentials <- credentials
    google_auth$access <- access_token
    
    if(save){
      save("google_auth",file=".google.auth.RData")
      
      # make sure your credentials are ignored by svn and git ####
      if (!file.exists(".gitignore")){
        cat(".google.auth.RData",file=".gitignore",sep="\n")
      } 
      if (file.exists(".gitignore")){
        cat(".google.auth.RData",file=".gitignore",append=TRUE)
      }
    }
  }
  if(exists("google_auth")){
    google_auth  
  } else {
    cat("an error occurred.")
  }
  
}