[R] passing username and password to source()

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team webmaster at xen.net
Thu Feb 14 00:10:57 CET 2008


Dieter Menne wrote:
> One way to handle this is to use Sys.setenv/Sys.getenv to pass parameters by
> environment. Make sure, however, that this does not violate security, because
> these parameter could be read by other programs. A quick workaround would be
> that the receiving program immediately deletes the environment string, after
> having read it.
>
> Dieter

Thanks Dieter.

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

All the best,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team



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