Re: [R-SIG-Mac] Disable readline echo in R for mac GUI

2018-11-15 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
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?

el

On 15/11/2018 15:06, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> 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 GUI (without depending on shiny or tcltk)?
> 
> readline_password <- function(prompt = "Please enter password\n"){
>   if(isatty(stdin())){
> if(system('stty -echo') == 0){
>   on.exit(system('stty echo'))
> }
>   }
>   base::readline(prompt)
> }

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[R-SIG-Mac] Disable readline echo in R for mac GUI

2018-11-15 Thread Jeroen Ooms
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 GUI (without depending on shiny or tcltk)?

readline_password <- function(prompt = "Please enter password\n"){
  if(isatty(stdin())){
if(system('stty -echo') == 0){
  on.exit(system('stty echo'))
}
  }
  base::readline(prompt)
}

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