Create a new environmental credential object

Description

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

Usage

cred_env(username = NULL, password = NULL)

Arguments

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

## Not run: 
## 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)

## End(Not run)