Login to the Databoard service — da

Authenticates against the Databoard-API and stores the returned access token in the system environment for subsequent calls. Please contact the Digital Media and Computational Methods research unit to acquire a user account. Keep your login data and access token private.

Usage

da_login(
  username,
  password,
  server = getOption("databoard.baseurl", DATABOARD_BASEURL),
  verbose = FALSE,
  silent = TRUE
)

Arguments

username: Character. Username for the login. If missing, the user is prompted interactively.
password: Character. Password for the login. If missing, the user is prompted interactively with a masked prompt (via the askpass package if available, otherwise an unmasked readline() fallback).
server: Character. Base URL of the Databoard server. Defaults to https://databoard.uni-muenster.de/.
verbose: Logical. If TRUE, subsequent API calls will print additional diagnostic information. Stored in the environment variable DATABOARD_VERBOSE.
silent: Logical. If TRUE, failing API calls will not stop processing further tasks. Stored in the environment variable DATABOARD_SILENT.

Value

Invisibly returns TRUE on successful login and FALSE otherwise. As a side effect, sets the environment variables DATABOARD_SERVER, DATABOARD_ACCESSTOKEN, and DATABOARD_VERBOSE.