On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Vincent Carey 525-2265 wrote:
I need to obtain username and password strings from the
user of a certain process running in R. scan() can be used
to get the strings, but the password will be echoed back as the
user
I need to obtain username and password strings from the
user of a certain process running in R. scan() can be used
to get the strings, but the password will be echoed back as the
user types it. Is there any way to load keyboard input
to a variable without echoing the input back to the screen?
There has been a change to the behavior of -.
See the error thrown at the bottom of the transcript
below. I don't believe this is an intended change.
==
older version of R-devel
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version
_
platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch i686
os linux-gnu
system i686,
