Have you checked out Hadley's secret package?
https://github.com/hadley/secure/blob/master/README.md Sent from my iPhone On 6 Jun 2015, at 8:19 am, Neal Fultz <nfu...@gmail.com> wrote: I am working on updating the RGoogleDocs package to use OAuth2, since the old api was recently turned off (at my job we use it as a poor mans database). As part of the auth process, I need to send google a client key and secret in order to gain access to a spreadsheet. Is there a 'safe' place to store the secret? I would strongly prefer not requiring my end users to have to sign up for their own google API keys, but I also do not want to store the secret in the clear. Any suggestions on best practices? -Neal Fultz [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel