registerAPIKey: Register an API key with the package

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References Examples

Description

An API key will allow you to make many more requests with the StackExchange servers. Using this function will register your API key with the package for the duration of your R session

Usage

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Arguments

key

An API key provided from StackExchange

Details

Individual IP addresses are capped at 300 requests per day (note that an individual request to an RStackExchange function might entail multiple requests to the StackExchange servers). Using an API key, this gets bumped up to 10,000 requests.

Value

This function is called for its side effect

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

References

http://stackapps.com/apps/register and http://stackapps.com/questions/67/how-api-keys-work

Examples

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   ## Not run: 
       registerAPIKey('SomeKeyProvidedToYou')
   
## End(Not run)

geoffjentry/RStackExchange documentation built on May 17, 2019, 1:11 a.m.