If anyone else is also interested in this, I found a satisfactory
solution to prompt for passwords in R.app using AppleScript. It is now
available in the 'askpass' package on CRAN.
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 5:06 AM Jeroen Ooms wrote:
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> When prompting the user for a password, we need to temporar
On my Mojave iMac
commandArgs()
returns
on RStudio
[1] "RStudio" "--interactive"
on Mac GUI
[1] "R" "--no-save" "--no-restore-data" "--gui=aqua"
and on R command line
[1] "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/bin/exec/R"
so maybe test for that?
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When prompting the user for a password, we need to temporarily disable
echo. In a tty we can call posix stty -echo (example below). The
RStudio GUI has a native password entry function that can be triggered
via getOption('askpass'). Is there simple method to prompt for a
password in the R for Mac G
