Feature request: allow argument "--quiet" to be passed to 'ee_Initialize()'

[MatthieuStigler]

Would it be possible that the argument --quiet can be used when calling ee_Initialize(), so that it runs effectively earthengine authenticate --quiet ?

This would be very useful to allow authentication on servers. With relatively recent changes in the earthengine function, previous authentication does not work anymore: one needs to add --quiet, so that it does not attempts to open a browser on the server. I believe this could solve https://github.com/r-spatial/rgee/issues/270

Source: email titled Security upgrades to authentication in Python notebooks and command line on the google groups, answer by D Gib. on August 3 2022

[csaybar]

Hi @MatthieuStigler, thank you for pointing it out!

The issue was that ee_Initialize and ee_Authenticate have a quiet argument with different purposes. ee_Initialize calls internally ee_Authenticate. Therefore, it is not possible to send the quiet argument using .... I added a new argument called auth_quiet in ee_Initialize to solve this issue.

Use ... to use ee_Authenticate argument in ee_Initialize.

?ee_Initialize ?ee_Authenticate

[csaybar]

This work in an R script (also vscode) but not if you are using Rstudio.

library(remotes)

# Install rgee
install_github("r-spatial/rgee")

# Create a Py ENV and install Py packages
rgee::ee_install()

# Install gcloud
system("curl -sSL https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash")
Sys.setenv(PATH=sprintf("%s:%s", Sys.getenv("PATH"), sprintf("%s/google-cloud-sdk/bin/", Sys.getenv("HOME"))))

rgee::ee_Initialize(auth_quiet = TRUE) 

[csaybar]

The Rstudio console doesn't permit reply the client library.

[MatthieuStigler]

thanks! I am now able to do the authentication, though effectively it won't work in Rstudio, needs command line (see error below).

The Rstudio problem feels like a minor issue, but see the output in case:

rgee 1.1.5 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── earthengine-api 0.1.317 ── ✔ user: not_defined ✔ Initializing Google Earth Engine:You are authorizing client libraries without access to a web browser. Please run the following command on a machine with a web browser and copy its output back here. Make sure the installed gcloud version is 372.0.0 or newer.

gcloud auth application-default login --remote-bootstrap=xxxx

Enter the output of the above command: ERROR: gcloud crashed (EOFError): EOF when reading a line

If you would like to report this issue, please run the following command: gcloud feedback

To check gcloud for common problems, please run the following command: gcloud info --run-diagnostics Fetching credentials using gcloud

Error in py_call_impl(callable, dots$args, dots$keywords) : Exception: gcloud failed. Please check for any errors above and install gcloud if needed.