sign_mturk: Sign an AWS mturk url.
In hadley/mturkr: Tools to work with Amazon's mechanical turk.

Sign an AWS mturk url.

1	sign_mturk(service, access_key = NULL, secret_key = NULL)

`access_key`	your amazon access key
`secret_key`	your amazon secret key

To use amazon apis you need both an access key (analogous to a username) and a secret key (analogous to a password). Both are available from https://aws-portal.amazon.com/gp/aws/developer/account/index.html?action=access-key#access_credentials.

There are three ways to specify your keys:

As parameters to this function: access_key, secret_key
As options, options(AWS_KEY = x), options(AWS_SECRET_KEY = y)
As environmental variables: AWS_KEY, AWS_SECRET_KEY

If your code is publically available (such as through a public svn or git repository) DO NOT store your secret in your code, as this will allow anyone to charge jobs to your amazon account. If you do accidentally publish it, go to the url above, deactivate the old keys and generate new access and secret keys.

hadley/mturkr documentation built on May 17, 2019, 11:04 a.m.