Hi Josh,
> On 8 Sep 2018, at 21:02, Joshua Ulrich <josh.m.ulr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Rainer, > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Rainer Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: >> Hi >> >> I have a package at GitHub (https://github.com/rkrug/ROriginStamp) which I am >> pre[paring for CRAN. >> >> It creates a trusted timestamp using the API fro OriginStamp >> (https://originstamp.org/home) which requires an API key. Now this API should >> not be made public, as to much traffic through one API key will lead to it’s >> blocking. >> >> I have stored the key encrypted in the travis.yml, and the package passes all >> tests. >> >> But if I send it to CRAN, it would fail the tests, as the api key is not in >> the package itself. >> >> I could disable all tests for CRAN which need the API key, but I think it >> would be better tu run the tests there as well (as an additional check to >> travis). >> >> My question: >> >> Is there a way of storing the API key encrypted, so that only the CRAN test >> servers can decrypt it, or is there another way can steal with this? >> > I have a similar issue with quantmod. I need API keys to test some > functionality and I would like the tests run regularly, so I can know > when something breaks without having to wait for a user to report the > change. Same motivation here. > > I store the API keys in encrypted environment variable in TravisCI, > and I check for those environment variables before running the tests > that require them. I am using the same approach for TravisCI and it works perfectly. > > Then I added a cron job on TravisCI to run the build if there hasn't > been a build in the past 24 hours. That solves the problem adequately > for my purposes without adding any burden to CRAN. Hopefully it works > for your purposes too. I haven’t thought about the CRON job for TravisCI - good point. I will activate it straight away. Thanks, Rainer > > Best, > Josh > >> Thanks, >> >> Rainer >> >> >> >> -- >> Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), >> MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) >> >> University of Zürich >> >> Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 >> email: rai...@krugs.de >> Skype: RMkrug >> >> PGP: 0x0F52F982 >> >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel >> > > > > -- > Joshua Ulrich | about.me/joshuaulrich > FOSS Trading | www.fosstrading.com > R/Finance 2018 | www.rinfinance.com -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) University of Zürich Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug PGP: 0x0F52F982
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