Package 'password'

Title: Create Random Passwords
Description: Create random passwords of letters, numbers and punctuation.
Authors: Enrico Schumann [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7601-6576>)
Maintainer: Enrico Schumann <[email protected]>
License: GPL-3
Version: 1.0-1
Built: 2026-05-26 06:10:03 UTC
Source: https://github.com/enricoschumann/password

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Random Password Generation

Description

Create random passwords consisting of letters, numbers and punctuation characters.

Usage

password(n = 8, numbers = TRUE, case = TRUE,
         special = c("?", "!", "&", "%", "$"))

Arguments

n

integer: length (in the sense of nchar) of password

numbers

logical: include numbers 0 to 9?

case

logical: use upper and lower case letters?

special

a character vector of punctuation characters, or FALSE.

Details

Creates a random combination of characters, using the function sample.

Value

A character vector of length one.

Author(s)

Enrico Schumann

Examples

password(8)
password(10, numbers = FALSE,  special = "/")