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

I'd highly recommend going the SSH route, and the below works for that. I found making the leap to SSH was easy, especially with R and RStudio. I'm using Windows in the below example. Edits from code I use in practice are in all caps.

creds = git2r::cred_ssh_key("C:\\Users\\MYSELF\\.ssh\\id_rsa.pub",
                            "C:\\Users\\MYSELF\\.ssh\\id_rsa")
devtools::install_git("git@gitlab.WORKDOMAIN.com:GITLABGROUP/PACKAGE.git",
                      credentials = creds)

Two quick additional comments:

• git2r is imported with devtools, you shouldn't need to install it separately.
• Also I don't think this should need mentioning, but passwords in plaintext in your script is a very bad idea.