zip with password

[alliesaizan]

Hello,

I would like to compress a file with a password in R. Could this functionality be added to the zip or zipr function?

Thanks!

[gaborcsardi]

Possibly, yes. I'll need to look around a bit to see what exactly is supported by other zip programs, so that we are compatible with them.

[alliesaizan]

Thank you! Looking forward to hearing what you find.

[Matherion]

Yes, this would be awesome! This would be great for ethical data sharing (i.e. respecting participants' privacy and sharing as much data as possible). Implementation of 256-bit AES encryption would allow anonymization and preservation of raw data to be handled programmatically. That could really help people to share their data. (... And there are loads of other reasons why being able to encrypt stuff would be brilliant, of course :-))

[danielinteractive]

+1