Any way to host a repository privately but not on a local network? about drat

[eddelbuettel]

If I follow, then what you describe seems orthogonal to whether your repo is public or private. -- drat just needs write access somewhere to have R write an updated PACKAGES file. That can be ~/git/someDir but drat does not what the remote to repo 'someDir', nor does drat need to know.

You can also run drat just find without git -- on the reading side R just uses installed.packages() over http, or via a file:/// URL.

I hope I am making sense here to you, if not may see different drat vignettes and/or refine the question here.

[eddelbuettel]

In other words, if hosted remotely, this turns into standard 'how to I protect a website' issue and you'd have to tell R how to run update.packages(), install.packages(), ... which may well work via curl and tokens.

drat just creates the repo. The transport layer is all you. Makes sense?

[daattali]

Yep makes sense. I haven't actually tried drat yet, just read the vignettes and was wondering if there are existing use cases of people placing their repos behind password protection.

If I host on a private server, inserting the package is easy because I personally have access to the web server so I can run the commands without problem. But for other people to run the addRepo() command, I'm not sure how to use the URL to tell drat to read from a server that needs user/pw authentication.

I understand this might be outside the scope of drat though. Or maybe it'll be as easy as just specifying the user:pw in the url.

[eddelbuettel]

You have to take each command and operation at a time. addRepo() is just a shorthand for setting options("repos"). And we're back to square one: you have a transport problem.

You can tell R to run all its download operations via an external program like curl (the binary). That way it is back to you to deal with whatever armada of proxies, firewall, bonfires, and whatnots you have between your machine and the sacred remote repo.

[daattali]

Right so this isn't a drat issue, feel free to close this issue, thanks for your patience

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