# plotly\_POST deprecated; api\_create not working in R

**URL:** <https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285>\
**Category:** Plotly R\
**Created:** [May 20, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285 "2017-05-20T01:28:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![annes72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@annes72](https://community.plotly.com/u/annes72)\
**Post date:** [May 20, 2017, 1:28am UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285/1 "2017-05-20T01:28:45Z")

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I had previously used this code to post to plotly:

g\<-ggplotly(g)  
temp\<-plotly\_POST(g,filename=“x”)

where g is a ggplot object. After updating ggplot, I got an error saying this function is deprecated and to use api\_create instead. So, I changed my code to:

g\<-ggplotly(g)  
temp\<-api\_create(g,filename=“SelfSignup\_Marketing/update\_time”,sharing=“public”)

and I get this error:

Error: Client error: (401) Unauthorized  
No such user

When I test plotly:::verify(“username”) and plotly:::verify(“api\_key”), I get the correct responses. I installed the development version (devtools::install\_github(“ropensci/plotly”)) and this did not fix the error. What is going on here and how do I fix it?.. Thanks!

> devtools::session\_info()  
> Session info -----------------------------------------------------------------------  
> setting value  
> version R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)  
> system x86\_64, darwin13.4.0  
> ui RStudio (1.0.136)  
> language (EN)  
> collate en\_US.UTF-8  
> tz America/Los\_Angeles  
> date 2017-05-19

Packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------------  
package \* version date source  
acepack 1.4.1 2016-10-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
assertthat 0.2.0 2017-04-11 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
backports 1.0.5 2017-01-18 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
base \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
base64enc 0.1-3 2015-07-28 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
checkmate 1.8.2 2016-11-02 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
chron 2.3-50 2017-02-20 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
cluster 2.0.6 2017-03-16 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
colorspace 1.3-2 2016-12-14 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
crosstalk 1.0.0 2016-12-21 cran (@1.0.0)  
curl 2.6 2017-04-27 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
data.table \* 1.10.4 2017-02-01 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
datasets \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
DBI \* 0.6-1 2017-04-01 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
devtools 1.13.1 2017-05-13 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
digest 0.6.12 2017-01-27 cran (@0.6.12)  
dplyr \* 0.5.0 2016-06-24 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
dtplyr \* 0.0.2 2017-04-21 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
foreign 0.8-68 2017-04-24 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
Formula \* 1.2-1 2015-04-07 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
ggplot2 \* 2.2.1.9000 2017-05-20 Github (hadley/ggplot2@f4398b6)  
git2r 0.18.0 2017-01-01 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
graphics \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
grDevices \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
grid 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
gridExtra \* 2.2.1 2016-02-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
gsubfn \* 0.6-6 2014-08-27 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
gtable 0.2.0 2016-02-26 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
Hmisc \* 4.0-3 2017-05-02 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
hms 0.3 2016-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
htmlTable 1.9 2017-01-26 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
htmltools 0.3.6 2017-04-28 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
htmlwidgets 0.8 2016-11-09 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
httpuv 1.3.3 2015-08-04 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
httr \* 1.2.1 2016-07-03 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
jsonlite 1.4 2017-04-08 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
knitr 1.15.1 2016-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
labeling 0.3 2014-08-23 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
lattice \* 0.20-35 2017-03-25 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
latticeExtra 0.6-28 2016-02-09 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
lazyeval 0.2.0 2016-06-12 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
lubridate \* 1.6.0 2016-09-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
magrittr 1.5 2014-11-22 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
Matrix 1.2-10 2017-04-28 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
memoise 1.1.0 2017-04-21 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
methods \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
mime 0.5 2016-07-07 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
munsell 0.4.3 2016-02-13 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
nnet 7.3-12 2016-02-02 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
plotly \* 4.7.0 2017-05-20 Github (ropensci/plotly@270506e)  
plyr 1.8.4 2016-06-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
proto \* 1.0.0 2016-10-29 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
purrr 0.2.2.2 2017-05-11 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
R6 2.2.1 2017-05-10 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
RColorBrewer \* 1.1-2 2014-12-07 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
Rcpp 0.12.10 2017-03-19 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
readr \* 1.1.1 2017-05-16 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
reshape2 \* 1.4.2 2016-10-22 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
rlang 0.1 2017-05-06 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
rpart 4.1-11 2017-04-21 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
RPostgreSQL \* 0.4-1 2016-05-08 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
RSQLite \* 1.1-2 2017-01-08 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
scales \* 0.4.1 2016-11-09 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
shiny 1.0.3 2017-04-26 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
splines 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
sqldf \* 0.4-10 2014-11-07 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
stats \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
stringi 1.1.5 2017-04-07 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
stringr \* 1.2.0 2017-02-18 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
survival \* 2.41-3 2017-04-04 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
tcltk 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
tibble 1.3.1 2017-05-17 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
tidyr \* 0.6.3 2017-05-15 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
tools 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
utils \* 3.3.2 2016-10-31 local  
viridisLite 0.2.0 2017-03-24 CRAN (R 3.3.2)  
withr 1.0.2 2016-06-20 CRAN (R 3.3.0)  
xtable \* 1.8-2 2016-02-05 CRAN (R 3.3.0)

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**Author:** ![carson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@carson](https://community.plotly.com/u/carson)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2017, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285/2 "2017-05-21T21:18:19Z")

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Hi @annes72, what’s your username?

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**Author:** ![annes72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@annes72](https://community.plotly.com/u/annes72)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285/3 "2017-05-22T17:28:41Z")

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I’m using an on-premise plotly so not sure my user name would be useful here. …

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**Author:** ![chelsea](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex024/user_avatar/community.plotly.com/chelsea/32/196_2.png) [@chelsea](https://community.plotly.com/u/chelsea)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 5:54pm UTC](https://community.plotly.com/t/plotly-post-deprecated-api-create-not-working-in-r/4285/4 "2017-05-22T17:54:54Z")

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Hi there,  
For help with your Plotly On-premise account please contact your On-premise representative (the instructions will likely be different than general community questions, for example you must complete the [Special Instructions for On-Prem](https://plot.ly/r/getting-started/#special-instructions-for-plotly-onpremise-users) getting started step).  
Thanks!