[R] passing username and password to source()

[Dieter Menne]

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team <webmaster <at> xen.net> writes:


> But considering I am just newbie, could you point me to any example to 
> get this working? Thanks!
> 

I was thinking of something like this (note: you must store PassEnv2.r on disk
as a file).


# File PassEnv.r
Sys.setenv(PASSW="mypass")
source("PassEnv2.r")
Sys.unsetenv("PASSW")
# Try again (to show it's removed)
source("PassEnv2.r")


#File PassEnv1.r
passw=Sys.getenv("PASSW")
# Sys.unsetenv("PASSW") ## This would also be possible to clear the enviroment
# Show that is worked
cat("The password is ",passw,"\n")


Again: this is good for your own computer, but should not be used when security
constraints are relevant. The password is visible to everyone for the time of
passenv1.r running.


Dieter