Add a popup text box within an R script using tcltk

Question

I have a long-ish script to do some data analysis, and it has to connect to several databases. One of the databases tends to update my password more frequently than I like,

Answer 1

You might find the ginput function of gWidgets wraps up what Greg Snow suggests for you:

require(gWidgets)
options(guiToolkit="tcltk") 
NameVal <- ginput("Enter your passsword:")

NameVal will contain the entered string or NA if you cancel.