Use an alternative browser

In googlesheets: Manage Google Spreadsheets from R

What if you want to do auth in a non-default browser? Examples below show requests for Google Chrome or Safari on Mac OS X.

At runtime, the browser is given via the browser element of options().

getOption("browser")

Two alternatives to change that temporarily for gs_auth():

Using just base R facilities.

library(googlesheets)

op <- options(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'")
#op <- options(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Safari.app'")
gs_auth()
options(op)

Using with withr package.

library(withr)
library(googlesheets)

with_options(
  #  list(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Safari.app'"),
  list(browser = "/usr/bin/open -a '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'"),
  gs_auth()
)

googlesheets documentation built on May 2, 2019, 1:57 p.m.