vignettes/alternative-browser.md

In jennybc/googlesheets: Manage Google Spreadsheets from R

title: "Use an alternative browser" date: "2018-06-28" author: "Jennifer Bryan" output: rmarkdown::html_vignette: toc: true keep_md: true vignette: > %\VignetteIndexEntry{Use an alternative browser} %\VignetteEngine{knitr::rmarkdown} %\VignetteEncoding{UTF-8}

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")

## function (url) 
## {
##     .Call("rs_browseURL", url)
## }
## <environment: 0x110626e40>

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()
)

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