Hide credentials in package development in R

Question

I'm developing a package for my company, and I want to need to hide the credentials of the connections to redshift databases. Is there an easy way to set it up?

Answer 1

Try this:

1. Create a file my_credentials.env
2. At the beginning of the code run readRenviron("my_credentials.env")
3. Access your variables by Sys.getenv("MY_VARIABLE")

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