gen_auth_save: Save Authentication of Your GENESIS Account

In restatis: Web API Client for the German Federal Statistical Office Database

Save Authentication of Your GENESIS Account

Description

See Details.

Usage

gen_auth_save()

Details

GENESIS username and password are encrypted and saved as RDS in the package config directory.

A random string is generated and stored in the session environment variable RESTATIS_KEY. This string is used as the key to encrypt and decrypt the entered GENESIS credentials.

To avoid having to save authentication in future sessions, RESTATIS_KEY can be added to .Renviron. The usethis package includes a helper function for editing .Renviron files from an R session with usethis::edit_r_environ().

Value

Path to the RDS file in which credentials are saved, invisibly.

restatis documentation built on July 9, 2023, 5:31 p.m.