BVQ is currently a developing package for internal use at the Center for Brain and Cognititon (CBC). For this reason, logging in requires a password that can be required by writing to the maintainer of this package (gongarciacastro@gmail.com).
EDIT: Since a few versions of the formr R package—which bvq uses—it is encouraged to use keyring to provide passwords when connecting to formr. Following these guidelines, it is recommended to set a keyring for formr in each local machine where bvq will be used. Please, do so as follows:
formr::formr_store_keys("formr")
When prompted, provide the apropriate email and password. These will be stored in the local machine, and will be retrieved by bvq whenever necessary without having to provide a password every time.
If you have already acquired the password, please, do not
include this password in your R scripts or anywhere they can
accidentally be made public. Instead, store the password as a
variable named FORMR_PWD
in the .Renviron file in your home
or project directory. You can create or open a .Renviron file from your
R console to include your newly acquired password using the
edit_r_environ()
from the usethis package:
usethis::edit_r_environ()
Another options is to create the a .txt file using your file manager,
editing it to include the FORMR_PWD
variable, and then
saving the file as .Renviron
(remember to remove any file
extension after the file name). This file should look like this:
FORMR_PWD=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
...
Where ...
represents any other global variables you may
want to make available to your R session.
Remember to restart your R session so that the new or modified global
variables stored in your .Renviron file are available. Once
FORMR_PWD
is available to your R session, in which you will
be using the bvq package, this password will be used under the hood. You
won’t have to load it.
However, in the case you want to take a look at it (for instance, to make sure the variable is available), you may recover it running:
Sys.getenv("FORMR_PWD")
If FORMR_PWD
is not available, the code above will
return ""
. If this is the case, make sure the variable name
is correct, check that the .Renviron file is stored in your project
folder or your home folder, and restart your R session. Should these
steps fail, contact the bvq package maintainer (gongarciacastro@gmail.com).
Finally, if you want to check if your current installation of bvq can
retrieve the password, run bvq_connect()
in your R
console.