cred_token function

Create a new personal access token credential object

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 the Creating a personal access token article on GitHub Docs.

cred_token(token = "GITHUB_PAT")

Arguments

• token: The name of the environmental variable that holds the personal access token for the authentication. Default is GITHUB_PAT.

Returns

A list of class cred_token with entry:

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

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)

See Also

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