Hard-coded external database credentials?

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Take a look into this other topic where credential management is widely discusses.

Keeping API Keys Private in Blogdown

The secret package is good, but I also have been known to make gratuitous use of passwords in environment variables. I pop them in my .Rprofile like this: Sys.setenv( MY_UID='your_UID') Sys.setenv( MY_PWD='your_password') then in R I can call Sys.getenv("MY_UID") anywhere I need my UID, for example.