Create a new environmental credential object — cred_env • git2r

Environmental variables can be written to the file .Renviron. This file is read by R during startup, see Startup.

cred_env(username = NULL, password = NULL)

Arguments

username: The name of the environmental variable that holds the username for the authentication.
password: The name of the environmental variable that holds the password for the authentication.

Value

A list of class cred_env with entries:

username: The name of the environmental variable that holds the username for the authentication.
password: The name of the environmental variable that holds the password for the authentication.

See also

Other git credential functions: cred_ssh_key(), cred_token(), cred_user_pass()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Create an environmental credential object for the username and
## password.
cred <- cred_env("NAME_OF_ENV_VARIABLE_WITH_USERNAME",
                 "NAME_OF_ENV_VARIABLE_WITH_PASSWORD")
repo <- repository("git2r")
push(repo, credentials = cred)
} # }