Installing non-public packages from Gitlab using devtools::install_git

Question

My institution recently installed GitLab for us. I\'ve figured out how to install R packages from the GitLab server using devtools::install_git and it works as

Answer 1

You could try a combination of the devtools and getPass packages.

https://github.com/wrathematics/getPass

devtools::install_git(
  "https://gitlab.com/foo/bar.git", 
  credentials = git2r::cred_user_pass("uname", getPass::getPass())
)

Where uname is your Gitlab user name.