This is a contribution of by Benjamin William Barrett who is a PhD student at the Health and Biomedical Informatics track of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Health Sciences Integrated PhD (HSIP) program. He was geocoding healthcare encounters within a singular, privacy-preserving, environment via containerization and Docker but struggled to get the {appeears} R package authentication working.
I provided some guidance, mainly the use of a pre-created or spoofed keying, to avoid any user interaction in such a non-interactive setup.
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