Support authentication for private CRAN-like repositories
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Description
This request is inspired by https://github.com/rstudio/renv/issues/307. Renv has a nice way to set authentication headers https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html?q=renv.download.headers#authentication-with-custom-headers
options(renv.download.headers = function(url) {
if (grepl("^https://my/repository", url))
return(c(Authorization = Sys.getenv("AUTH_HEADER")))
})
Is there a way to do this in packrat?
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Research direction
Start by comparing packrat's repository and download behavior with the authentication-header approach described in the linked renv issue and documentation. Define how credentials for private CRAN-like repositories should be supplied and what successful authenticated dependency installation should demonstrate.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100