Error: couldn't find NYTIMES_KEY environment variable

[ngathan]

I followed the first steps to set up the environment as follows:

apikey <- paste0("NYTIMES_KEY=", "mykey____")
file <- file.path(path.expand("~"), ".Renviron")
cat(apikey, file = file, append = TRUE, fill = TRUE)
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mkearney/nytimes")
library(nytimes)
nytsearch <- nyt_search("multiculturalism", n = 2000)

But I got this error: Error: couldn't find NYTIMES_KEY environment variable

What have I done wrong?

[sarahemlin]

I used Sys.setenv(NYTIMES_KEY="MY-API-KEY") instead of the first 3 lines of code and it worked. I found that suggestion here: https://www.storybench.org/working-with-the-new-york-times-api-in-r/

[ngathan]

Thanks @sarahemlin!