Way to securely give a password to R application from the terminal?

Question

Does R have a function that allows a user to provide a password securely, such as Python\'s getpass module?

(see http://docs.python.org/library/getpass.

Answer 1

Per m-dz in the comments above, there is a now a package for doing this called getPass, which has a single function, getPass(). This is a replacement for base::readline().