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

Just adding to @Roman's response, here's the code that worked for me:

if(!requireNamespace("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dkahle/ggmap", ref = "tidyup")
library(ggmap)
register_google(key = "your_API_key") 
usa<- get_googlemap(location='united states', zoom=4,maptype = "hybrid")

For more information you could refer to the library page on github: here
Hopefully it helps!