R Observatory: Metrics for credentials version 2.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

credentials

2.0.3

Tools for Managing SSH and Git Credentials

4packages depend

2.3Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2019-03-0510 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Setup and retrieve HTTPS and SSH credentials for use with 'git' and other services. For HTTPS remotes the package interfaces the 'git-credential' utility which 'git' uses to store HTTP usernames and passwords. For SSH remotes we provide convenient functions to find or generate appropriate SSH keys. The package both helps the user to setup a local git installation, and also provides a back-end for git/ssh client libraries to authenticate with existing user credentials.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("credentials", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lib/credentials")

Development version from r-lib/credentials. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-credentials

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-credentials

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-credentials

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 20%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #244 · ~6.4K/day · ~194.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

161.3K30 days

569.3K90 days

2.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on92.4K r2u28 autocran211.5K conda_forge327 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/credentials

75Stars

4Forks

9Open issues

2Open PRs

3Releases

168Commits

3Contributors

rrstatsgitpasswordssh

168 commits · Last activity 2025-09-12 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 732026-07-07 · 75

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/credentials on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyor

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

openssl sys curl jsonlite askpass

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

203indirect

gert rbranding ssh worcs

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-05
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 277 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

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citation("credentials")

Format

Ooms, J. (2025). credentials: Tools for Managing SSH and Git Credentials (Version 2.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.credentials

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for credentials version 2.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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