get_map not passing the API key (HTTP status was '403 Forbidden')

Question

I have been facing this issue in the get_map() function (ggmap library) in R.

My code was running without the need to specify an API key

Answer 1

I don't know the direct resolution to the ggmap issue, but if you're happy to work with an interactive map rather than a static one you can use my googelway library

library(googleway)

set_key("GOOGLE_MAP_KEY")

lat <- c(4,41) #India lat boundaries
lon <- c(68,99) #India long boundaries
center = c(mean(lat), mean(lon))

google_map(location = center, zoom = 6)