How to completely remove a pre-authorized google account in R library googledrive?

Question

As you can see in the image above, I have associated two email ids in R library googledrive. Now I need to delete one permanently so that whenever I call drive_auth() only one shows up.

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling googledrive package using remove.packages(). I have also tried to de-link the second account manually in https://myaccount.google.com/connections but it is still showing up. Is there any way to permanently remove it?

Answer 1

The special authorization stuff to connect to google is handled by a package called "gargle". This package caches data about account outside the package folder so it can be persisted. The data is stored in the path returned by

rappdirs::user_cache_dir("gargle")

If you open that folder you should be able to delete the account that you want to disappear. If there is a function in the package itself to do this, I do not know what it is.