Re: [Rd] authentication support question

2005-03-17 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
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 types it. Is there any way to load keyboard input to a

Re: [Rd] authentication support question

2005-03-17 Thread Vincent Carey 525-2265
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

[Rd] authentication support question

2005-03-16 Thread Vincent Carey 525-2265
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?