Create a new personal access token credential object

Description

The personal access token is stored in an envrionmental variable. Environmental variables can be written to the file .Renviron. This file is read by R during startup, see Startup. On GitHub, personal access tokens function like ordinary OAuth access tokens. They can be used instead of a password for Git over HTTPS, see https://help.github.com/articles/creating-an-access-token-for-command-line-use

Usage

cred_token(token = "GITHUB_PAT")

Arguments

Value

A list of class cred_token with entry:

token

The name of the environmental variable that holds the personal access token for the authentication.

See Also

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

Examples

## Not run: 
## Create a personal access token credential object.
## This example assumes that the token is stored in
## the 'GITHUB_PAT' environmental variable.
repo <- repository("git2r")
cred <- cred_token()
push(repo, credentials = cred)

## End(Not run)