getUserAuthToken: get (via a http POST request) your user authentication token...

In cmatKhan/brentlabRnaSeqTools: A Collection of Functions to Interact with the Brentlab RNASeq Database

Description

get (via a http POST request) your user authentication token from the database

Usage

getUserAuthToken(url, username, password)

Arguments

url	check the database_info variable. for configured organisms, you can find this under database_info$organism$token_auth
username	a valid username for the database. If you don't have one, then you'll need to ask for one to be created
password	password associated with your username

Value

the auth token associated with the username and password

Note

do not save your auth token in a public repository. For example, you might put it in your .Renviron and then make sure that your .Renviron is in your .gitignore. Otherwise, save it outside of a github tracked directory or otherwise ensure that it will not be pushed up to github

cmatKhan/brentlabRnaSeqTools documentation built on Nov. 17, 2021, 5:47 a.m.