[ESS] Prevent ESS From Writing .Rhistory
Stephen Eglen
@je30 @end|ng |rom c@m@@c@uk
Thu Aug 25 19:01:07 CEST 2016
> Thanks for the suggestion. I _never_ would have guessed that the choice
> of password prompt mattered (especially since I need to read and use two
> different passwords and was planning to customize the prompts to make
> sure I knew which was which).
>
> But I'd already found an even better solution (since I also wanted to
> avoid echoing the password to the screen when I typed it). There is a
> relatively new R package called "getPass" that will popup a tcltk window
> to get the password while only showing asterisks. As a side effect, it
> also prevents the password from getting written to the .Rhistory file.
Great - but note, that when comint catches the password prompt (as in
version 2) it is not visible -- as you type it, dots appear.b
Stephen
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