Ask the user for a password interactively

Ask the user for a password interactively.

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

if (FALSE) {
rstudioapi::askForPassword("Please enter your password")
}