bigrquery 1.2.0
Auth from gargle
bigrquery's auth functionality now comes from the gargle package, which provides R infrastructure to work with Google APIs, in general. The same transition is underway in several other packages, such as googledrive. This will make user interfaces more consistent and makes two new token flows available in bigrquery:
- Application Default Credentials
- Service account tokens from the metadata server available to VMs running on GCE
Where to learn more:
- Help for
bq_auth()all that most users need - details for more advanced users
Changes that a user will notice
OAuth2 tokens are now cached at the user level, by default, instead of in .httr-oauth in the current project. The default OAuth app has also changed. This means you will need to re-authorize bigrquery (i.e. get a new token). You may want to delete any vestigial .httr-oauth files lying around your bigrquery projects.
The OAuth2 token key-value store now incorporates the associated Google user when indexing, which makes it easier to switch between Google identities.
bq_user() is a new function that reveals the email of the user associated with the current token.
If you previously used set_service_token() to use a service account token, it still works. But you'll get a deprecation warning. Switch over to bq_auth(path = "/path/to/your/service-account.json"). Several other functions are similarly soft-deprecated.
Dependency changes
R 3.1 is no longer explicitly supported or tested. Our general practice is to support the current release (3.6), devel, and the 4 previous versions of R (3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2).
gargle and rlang are newly Imported.