Authenticate to Box (interactive-app)

Source: R/boxr_auth.R

There are two common use-cases for box_auth():

  1. Connecting to box.com accounts from boxr for the first time.

  2. Connecting to previously-connected box.com accounts.

In the first case, you will need to provide box_auth() with client_id and client_secret.

In the second case, you can call box_auth() with no arguments; the function will look for these in your R environment.

To run this function the first time, you will need access to the client_id and client_secret of a Box interactive-app. If you are using a work account, this information might be provided to you by your Box-admin team. If you are using a personal account, you will have to set up a Box interactive-app.

For both cases, these procedures are detailed in this boxr interactive-app article.

box_auth(
  client_id = NULL,
  client_secret = NULL,
  interactive = TRUE,
  cache = "~/.boxr-oauth",
  write.Renv,
  ...
)

Arguments

client_id

character, the client id for the account to use.
client_secret

character, the client secret for the account to use.
interactive

logical, indicates that the authorization process will be interactive (requiring user input to the R console, and/or a visit to box.com).
cache

A logical value or a string. TRUE means to cache using the default cache file .httr-oauth, FALSE means don't cache, and NA means to guess using some sensible heuristics. A string means use the specified path as the cache file.
write.Renv

deprecated.
...

Other arguments passed to httr::oauth2.0_token().

Value

Invisible NULL, called for side effects.

Side-effects

This function has some side effects which make subsequent calls to box_auth() easier:

  • a browser window may be opened at box.com, for you to authorize to your Box app.

  • a token file is written, according to the value of cache. The default behaviour is to write this file to ~/.boxr-oauth.

  • some global options() are set for your session to manage the token.

  • environment variables BOX_USER_ID, BOX_CLIENT_ID, and BOX_CLIENT_SECRET are set.

  • if these environment variables have changed, and you have the usethis package installed, it will copy some text to your clipboard that you can paste into your .Renviron file.

  • a message is printed to the console.

See also

box_auth_service()

for authenticating to service-apps.

httr::oauth2.0_token()

for details on how tokens are handled.

Box Developers: Setup with OAuth 2.0

documentation for setting up Box (interactive) apps with OAuth 2.0.