read.mjp: Read in a Data Set Encrypted with GPG, an MJP team defined...

In richielin/mjp: MJP R Package

Description

Read in a Data Set Encrypted with GPG, an MJP team defined function

Usage

read.mjp(file, tmp.path = "~/Documents/")

Arguments

file

Path to the data file encrypted with GNU Privacy Guard (GPG). This currently works for CSV, SPSS, Stata, Rdata, and rds file types that have been ecrypted using GPG.

tmp.path

Path to a directory where the data will be temporarily downloaded and decrypted. WARNING – This should not be a place on the cloud such as Dropbox; it should be a place on your local hard drive for security reasons. The default is to create a temporary directory called "mjp.temp" in the user's Documents directory. The user can specify a different directory in which to create the mjp.temp as a subdirectory.

Value

A data.frame of the data imported.

Examples

## IMPORT AN RDATA FILE TO DEFAULT TEMPORARY DIRECTORY
    mydata <- read.mjp(file="~/Documents/dataset.Rdata.gpg")

## IMPORT AN RDATA FILE TO A USER-SPECIFIED TEMPORARY DIRECTORY
    mydata <- read.mjp(file="~/Documents/dataset.Rdata.gpg", tmp.path="~/Data/")

richielin/mjp documentation built on May 5, 2019, 12:32 p.m.