askpass

1.2.1

Password Entry Utilities for R, Git, and SSH

30packages depend

10.1Mdownloads / year

5.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2019-01-024 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Cross-platform utilities for prompting the user for credentials or a passphrase, for example to authenticate with a server or read a protected key. Includes native programs for MacOS and Windows, hence no 'tcltk' is required. Password entry can be invoked in two different ways: directly from R via the askpass() function, or indirectly as password-entry back-end for 'ssh-agent' or 'git-credential' via the SSH_ASKPASS and GIT_ASKPASS environment variables. Thereby the user can be prompted for credentials or a passphrase if needed when R calls out to git or ssh.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("askpass", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("r-lib/askpass")

Development version from r-lib/askpass. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-askpass

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-askpass

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-askpass

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.11

5.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

10.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #88 · ~27.6K/day · ~838.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/askpass

88Stars

0Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

54Commits

2Contributors

54 commits · Last activity 2024-10-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-18 · 862026-07-07 · 88

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/askpass on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

sys

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none

Suggests (1)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

30direct

3,041indirect

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-01-02
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 5.9 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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