How to hide a password in R with the keyring package
This post will introduce using the keyring package to hide a password. Short background The keyring package is a library designed to let you access your operating system's credential store. In essence, it lets you store and retrieve passwords in your operating system, which allows you to avoid having a password in plaintext in an R script. Storing a password Storing a password with keyring is really straightforward. First, we just need to load the keyring package. Then we call a function called key_set_with_value. In this function, we'll input three different parameters - service, username and password. [code lang="R"] # load keyring package library(keyring) # Store email username with password key_set_with_value(service = "user_email", username = "your_address@example.com", password = "test password") [/code] The username and password stored are just that -…
