Save your API Key as a system environment variable ODDS_API_KEY
Value
Called as a side-effect to ensure that a user has an API key stored in their environment before making a call to the Odds API service.
Details
To get access to an API key, follow the instructions at https://the-odds-api.com
Using the key:
You can save the key for consistent usage by adding ODDS_API_KEY=XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX
to your .Renviron file (easily accessed via usethis::edit_r_environ()
).
Run usethis::edit_r_environ()
,
a new script will pop open named .Renviron
, THEN
paste the following in the new script that pops up (without quotations)
ODDS_API_KEY = XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX
Save the script and restart your RStudio session, by clicking Session
(in between Plots
and Build
) and click Restart R
(there also exists the shortcut Ctrl + Shift + F10
to restart your session).
If set correctly, from then on you should be able to use any of the toa_
functions without any other changes.
For less consistent usage:
At the beginning of every session or within an R environment,
save your API key as the environment variable ODDS_API_KEY
(with quotations)
using a command like the following.
Sys.setenv(ODDS_API_KEY = "XXXX-YOUR-API-KEY-HERE-XXXXX")