PAT for GitHub

I have been avoiding setting up a Personal Access Token to authenticate my github account for a while because it seemed complicated. Never fear Happy Git with R and usethis() to the rescue.

create a token

In the RStudio console, install the usethis package if you don’t already have it and use it to create a github token.

#install.packages("usethis")

library(usethis)

usethis::create_github_token()

This will take you to github and make a token for you. Accept the defaults and copy the token.

Go back to the RStudio console. Install the gitcreds package, if you don’t already have it and then use the gitcreds_set function to tell R you want to set github credentials.

store it in your credentials

# install.packages("gitcreds")

library(gitcreds)

gitcreds_set(url = "https://github.com")

Then it will ask you to Enter password or token…paste into your console.

check that it works

Check that it works, using the gitcreds_get() function.

gitcreds_get()