hRvstAPI - This is a wrapper for the Harvest REST API v2.
The foremost function of this package is to act as a
*convenient* wrapper around the Harvest REST API v2. To that
end, the package handles credentials either through the system
keyring using the `keyring` package (preferred), or through
environment variables written to a local `.Renviron` file.
Credential handling can be initiated explicitly, but otherwise
happens automatically upon making an API request. This package
tries to make accessing the Harvest API as easy as possible.
While it does allow some tweaking of the actual HTTP request
via function arguments, the primary method for accessing API
data is to simply select which resource to query (e.g. "users"
will download all users data). *Note, that the default is to
only download "active" records.* The reason for this mode of
access is that a request usually isn't very big and the typical
user will probably want to manipulate the data in a more
sophisticated manner for some downstream visualization or other
analysis. Building on this premise, the secondary function of
this package is to manage the long term storage of API data to
minimize remote requests. This is achieved by storing API data
in a local SQLite database, for which this package also
provides a straightforward way of accessing and updating with
new data. There is a companion Shiny application (hRvst) which
utilizes this wrapper for Harvest API data access, and perhaps
slightly enhances this package.
