When working with data provided by common APIs you will almost always get in contact with JSON formatted data. Using R’s rjson::fromJSON will transform JSON to R’s lists. So far so good. Converting those lists to tibble using tibble::as_tibble will fail when the JSON (and therefor the list) contains NULL values. So you havve to replace them before building the tibble.

Lately I tried to query BigQuery using bigrquery. Unfortunately I got an error: Error in strsplit(name, ".", fixed = TRUE) : non-character argument

Lately I wanted to play around with nflfastR. That’s a great package giving you access to NFL’s play-by-play data since 1999. It let’s you download all the data and store it in several different databases.

Unfortunately I ran into trouble when I tried to import the data to Google’s BigQuery.

This blogpost is mainly a reminder for myself where I can delete this information.

But what’s all about?

Recently I installed bigrquery and ran queries against Google’s BigQuery cloud-database before I had installed gcloud (and did the authorization as described at https://docs.getdbt.com/reference/warehouse-setups/bigquery-setup#local-oauth-gcloud-setup).

So R asked me to authorize the session in a browser. So far so good.

But every time I started a new R session I was asked if I want to use the well known account or another one.

So I was wondering where this account information was stored and how I could delete this information.

After upgrading my local R version to version 4.2.1 I always got an annoying warning after loading my own package. This only occurred using RStudio.