Working with R programming language on dropbox with BC

Sebastian Hesse

Dear community,

I am working with the R programming language as a data scientist, collaborating with other people. We are sharing the data on dropbox and our scripts direct to the file on the dropbox (eg: "~/Dropbox/project/example.csv").
It would be great being able to use Boxcryptor for enhanced data protection but I just found that if im working from R, all files are shown with the second ending .bc ((eg: "~/Dropbox/project/example.csv.bc"). I can not read these files into R.

I suppose that the files are shown as encrypted so the question is if I can access the files from R to be read in an unencrypted form?
Has anyone experience with this or a similar problem?
Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks!
Sebastian

Yasmin

Hello Sebastian,

please check your emails, I have answered via the ticket system.

Actually, you must open/save/modify, also work with your R files via the Boxcryptor drive.
Point your R editor to the Boxcryptor drive when opening/saving.

BTW: the .bc extension is added by Boxcryptor to each encrypted file and these files are only on the "Cloud-side".

Best regards,
Yasmin