Set credentials for NASA's Earthdata portal

To use smapr, users need to provide NASA Earthdata portal credentials. This function allows users to interactively set these credentials via the user's Earthdata username and password.

Usage

set_smap_credentials(username, password, save = TRUE, overwrite = FALSE)

Arguments

username

A character string of your Earthdata portal username

password

A character string of your Earthdata portal password

save

Logical: whether to save your credentials to your .Renviron file (e.g., ~/.Renviron). Previous Earthdata credentials will not be overwritten unless overwrite = TRUE.

overwrite

Logical: whether to overwrite previous Earthdata credentials in your .Renviron file (only applies when save = TRUE)

Value

A data.frame with the names of the data files, the remote directory, and the date.

Details

If you do not yet have a username and password, register for one here: https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov/

A warning: do not commit your username and password to a public repository! This function is meant to be used interactively, and not embedded within a script that you would share.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
set_smap_credentials('myusername', 'mypassword')
}