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Sensitive information in R scripts
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If your R script uses senstive information such as a password, then it's best to keep this in a seperate file (and perhaps outside the project's repository). Moreover, if you're giving a live demo using RStudio, then you should avoid putting this senstive information in your global environment.

If you put it in a YAML file, say .my_project.yaml, which may look as follows:

---
api_service:
  username: foo
  password: bar123!

then you can easily load these settings in R using:

library(yaml)
options(my_project = yaml.load_file(".my_project.yaml"))

which you can then access with getOption("my_project")$api_service$password.

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