Storing secrets with R. Using the keyring package you can stole encrypted secrets on disk or store them as environment variables in memory.

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library(keyring)
options("keyring_backend" = "file") # set this in .Rprofile for convenience

### Store secrets encrypted at rest

keyring_create("kr")
key_set("foobar", keyring = "kr")
key_get("foobar", keyring = "kr")

### Store multiple secrets

keyring_create("DBs")

key_set("db1", "user", keyring = "DBs")
key_set_with_value("db2", "user", "password", keyring = "DBs")

keyring_lock("DBs")
keyring_unlock("DBs")

key_get("db1", "user", keyring = "DBs")
key_get("db2", "user", keyring = "DBs")

### Retrieve with RStudio

options("keyring_backend" = "file")
keyring::keyring_create("system")
rstudioapi::askForSecret("psql")