wmay/tunnelr

Control SSH tunneling in R

tunnelr

Control SSH tunneling in R

Requirements

Mac and Linux systems require ssh-askpass to enter passwords interactively. Follow these instructions to securely login without entering a password (thus not requiring ssh-askpass). tunnelr relies on PuTTY in Windows, and looks for it in the standard installation paths, e.g., C:\Program Files\PuTTY or C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY.

Installation

In the R terminal:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("wmay/tunnelr")

Usage

Run tunnel() to open an SSH tunnel, and closeTunnel() to close it.

Example:

sshTunnel = tunnel(remote_server, server_username, remote_port, local_port)
# do things ...
closeTunnel(sshTunnel)