random_password: Generate a random password with a specified length

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Generate a random password with a specified length

Description

This function generates a random passord sampled from the ASCII table.

Usage

random_password(length = 12, replace = FALSE, extended = TRUE)

Arguments

length	length of the password
replace	sample from the ASCII table with (TRUE) or without (FALSE) replacement?
extended	if FALSE, use alphanumeric characters only; otherwise use all the ASCII characters

Value

a character string

Author(s)

Yihui Xie <https://yihui.org>

See Also

sample

Examples

random_password()
# set the seed to get fixed password every time; you may just remember the seed
# and forget the real password because it's reproducible
set.seed(123)
random_password()
# long password
random_password(20, TRUE)

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