How can I pass the Bing Maps Services Key

[lucazav]

Hi all,

I'd like to test Tidygeocoder with Bing Maps Services. I already have a Bing key to test them, but I can't find a way to pass it using any Tidygeocoder function. Am I missing something?

Thank you.

[dieghernan]

Hi!

API Keys should be set as an environment variable, see https://jessecambon.github.io/tidygeocoder/articles/geocoder_services.html#api-key-retrieval-1.

Note that Bing was introduced on v1.0.3, so please check that you have updated your package first:

update.packages("tidygeocoder")

For your convenience, find a reprex below:

Sys.setenv(BINGMAPS_API_KEY = "<YOUR API KEY HERE>")
library(tidygeocoder)

geo("Times Square", method = "bing")
#> # A tibble: 1 x 3
#>   address        lat  long
#>   <chr>        <dbl> <dbl>
#> 1 Times Square  40.8 -74.0

sessionInfo()
#> R version 4.0.5 (2021-03-31)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19041)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252  LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                  
#> [5] LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> other attached packages:
#> [1] tidygeocoder_1.0.3
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] pillar_1.6.0      compiler_4.0.5    highr_0.9         tools_4.0.5      
#>  [5] digest_0.6.27     jsonlite_1.7.2    evaluate_0.14     lifecycle_1.0.0  
#>  [9] tibble_3.1.1      pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_0.4.10      reprex_2.0.0     
#> [13] DBI_1.1.1         cli_2.5.0         rstudioapi_0.13   curl_4.3.1       
#> [17] yaml_2.2.1        xfun_0.22         withr_2.4.2       styler_1.4.1     
#> [21] stringr_1.4.0     httr_1.4.2        dplyr_1.0.5       knitr_1.33       
#> [25] generics_0.1.0    fs_1.5.0          vctrs_0.3.7       tidyselect_1.1.1 
#> [29] glue_1.4.2        R6_2.5.0          fansi_0.4.2       rmarkdown_2.8    
#> [33] purrr_0.3.4       magrittr_2.0.1    ps_1.6.0          backports_1.2.1  
#> [37] ellipsis_0.3.1    htmltools_0.5.1.1 assertthat_0.2.1  utf8_1.2.1       
#> [41] stringi_1.5.3     crayon_1.4.1.9000

^{Created on 2021-05-12 by the reprex package (v2.0.0)}