Ask user crendentials when running R in Terminal

Question

I am running an R script from Terminal (not RStudio) and at some point I need the user to write the username and password to access an API. For this, I am using a non-safe approach with the following code:

cat('Write username: ')
username<-readLines("stdin", n=1)
cat('Write password: ')
password<-readLines("stdin", n=1)

I have seen there is a nice implementation in RStudio using the rstudioapi package and the askForPassword function but since I am running my script from Termianl, I wonder if there is any alternative or more secure way to ask for this information

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2917202/way-to-securely-give-a-password-to-r-application-from-the-terminal — Roman Luštrik, Sep 06 '19 at 09:05

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 06 '19 at 08:36

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getPass is your best solution.

It supports RStudio and fallsback to tcltk and other backends if missing.

password <- getPass::getPass() is your call.

answered Sep 06 '19 at 08:36

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