R Password protects .rdata data file

Question

I am trying to protect some data files that I save in R. Is there a way to password protect the R data file (.Rdata)?

thanks

Answer 1

You can call GnuPG to encrypt the file using public key cryptography after creating it in the same script. This will allow you to additionally share encrypted files with others without sharing your password.

More about GnuPG: https://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html

Although I personally passed shell commands to encrypt the file, rather than using a third-party tool / package, cran has the gpg package: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gpg/index.html