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Special Characters in Passwords

Source: vignettes/passwords.Rmd
passwords.Rmd

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Special character passwords containing backslash \ do not work out of the box due to how R and URLs handle them. Backslashes are special characters that mean escape in R. There are multiple ways to handle a backslash in your password, but they need to be handled when creating the initial connection to Robin Hood.

Here are 3 ways to deal with backslashes in passwords:

  • For R 4.0 and greater the special strings function r"()" will ignore escapes
  • Use an escape charater \ to have R read the backslash as a string
  • Web browsers browsers interpret %5C as a backslash, and ignore a literal backslash
library(RobinHood)

# If the true password is: abc\def

# The following inputs will all work
RH <- RobinHood("username", pwd = r"(abc\def)")
RH <- RobinHood("username", pwd = "abc\\def")
RH <- RobinHood("username", pwd = "abc%5Cdef")