Safely cache and store personal access tokens

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I'm working on a R package that interacts with APIs from GitHub, Google, and Calendly and these services all have tokens. Our package directs the user to create a personal access token, let's say a GitHub PAT, and asks the user to paste the token. Then, we save the token in a variable called token and cache it.

I was wondering what are some best practices to cache (store) these personal access tokens? Currently, we are saving the tokens as a RDS file and moving it to inst/extdata/cached_secrets.

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Hi @howardbaek
Check out the keyring and keyringr packages designed for use in your situation.

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