get_events More descriptive error message than "Result 1 is not a length 1 atomic vector"

[RickPack]

I hope to explore this more carefully but get_events returns:
Error: Result 1 is not a length 1 atomic vector

when one submits:
grp_events <- get_events("tangoutopia", event_status = "past")

I do not yet know why. There are plenty of past Meetups in https://www.meetup.com/tangoutopia/events/past/ and indeed the function prints:
Downloading 1021 record(s)...

EDIT Can someone see if you also experience this error? I wonder if this is due to me hitting the API too frequently in a given expanse of time.

[EconomiCurtis]

I'm with you on the utility of a more useful error message. The source of this message was in purrr, when an api call requests a field that is not present, and in your purrr map function call no default is provided.

You might want to check out the conversation in purrr issues: https://github.com/tidyverse/purrr/search?q=is+not+a+length+1+atomic+vector&type=Issues

I can imagine with situations like this, with many map calls, it might be useful to have a verbose error messages that refers to specific field you were hoping to see.

[pr130]

this is also a problem in get_event_attendees, e.g. in the example provided in the docs:

library(meetupr)
urlname <- "rladies-nashville"
past_events <- get_events(urlname = urlname, event_status = "past")
#> Warning in strptime(x, fmt, tz = "GMT"): unknown timezone 'zone/tz/2018i.
#> 1.0/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin'
#> Downloading 14 record(s)...
event_id <- past_events$id[1]  #first event for this group
attendees <- get_event_attendees(urlname, event_id)
#> Downloading 1 record(s)...
#> Error: Result 1 is not a length 1 atomic vector

[maelle]

I don't get any error with the reprex above. @friep would you have time to try the package's latest version? Maybe @Athanasiamo's work on the internals fixed this.

[maelle]

@friep do you still get an error?

[drmowinckels]

I cannot reproduce this error either.

[pr130]

sorry for taking so long. unfortunately i can't really try it out because i get an unrelated auth error that i don't have the time to debug ( I wrote @maelle on twitter about it). sadly i don't have time to look into it. but i think if you both can't reproduce this anymore (not surprising after 2 years) it is safe to close this.