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

Per Ciro's comment, authenticating using

https://user:password@domain.com/user/repo.git

does the trick. So the complete call would be

devtools::install_git('https://user:password@mini-me2.lerner.ccf.org/nutterb/modeltable.git')

Please note that there may be security concerns with passing the user name and password this way. I'm not completely educated on those concerns. This works well enough for my purposes because I am authenticated on my company's network to even see the GitLab server.