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R: Ask the user for a password interactively
askForPasswordR Documentation

Ask the user for a password interactively

Description

Ask the user for a password interactively.

Usage

askForPassword(prompt)

Arguments

prompt

Single element character vector containing the prompt to be displayed

Details

RStudio also sets the global askpass option to the rstudioapi::askForPassword function so that it can be invoked in a front-end independent manner.

Note

The askForPassword function was added in version 0.99.853 of RStudio.

Examples

## Not run: 
rstudioapi::askForPassword("Please enter your password")

## End(Not run)

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