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askForPassword

Ask the user for a password interactively

Description

Ask the user for a password interactively.

Usage

askForPassword(prompt = "Please enter your password")

Arguments

prompt

The prompt to be shown to the user.

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)

rstudioapi

Safely Access the RStudio API

v0.13

MIT + file LICENSE

Authors

Kevin Ushey [aut, cre], JJ Allaire [aut], Hadley Wickham [aut], Gary Ritchie [aut], RStudio [cph]

Initial release