Connect to a Opal server — dsConnect,OpalDriver-method • DSOpal

Connect to a Opal server, with provided credentials. Does not create a DataSHIELD R session, only retrieves user profile.

# S4 method for OpalDriver
dsConnect(
  drv,
  name,
  restore = NULL,
  username = NULL,
  password = NULL,
  token = NULL,
  url = NULL,
  opts = list(),
  profile = NULL,
  ...
)

Arguments

drv: OpalDriver-class class object.
name: Name of the connection, which must be unique among all the DataSHIELD connections.
restore: Workspace name to be restored in the newly created DataSHIELD R session.
username: User name in opal(s).
password: User password in opal(s).
token: Personal access token (since opal 2.15, ignored if username is specified).
url: Opal url or list of opal urls. Can be provided by "opal.url" option.
opts: Curl options as described by httr (call httr::httr_options() for details). Can be provided by "opal.opts" option.
profile: The DataSHIELD R server profile (affects the R packages available and the applied configuration). If not provided or not supported, default profile will be applied.
...: Unused, needed for compatibility with generic.

Value

A OpalConnection-class object.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
con <- dsConnect(DSOpal::Opal(), "server1", "username", "password", "https://opal.example.org")
con
dsDisconnect(con)
}