I originally wrote this for lists, but it also works for character vectors, and may eventually expand to other objects like data frames. Thanks for catching the mismatch! Hopefully this fix makes as much sense as this can!

Good idea, but the errors were being generated by base R/weren't saying anything useful (they were the general "missing argument" messages). I've updated them to focus on the things as_api_object does specifically, to separate a failure of this function from all the places it's used within the package.