On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, John Marsland wrote: > I am trying to create a repository for my own packages as an easy way > to auto install packages on a number of servers. > > Obviously, I am able to connect using install.packages() to CRAN > without problems but when I specify my own repos I get an error: > > > install.packages(pkgs, repos="http://some.site.com";) > Warnings message: > cannot open: HTTP status was '401 Authorisation Required' > > I get a similar message if I try to use download.file() on the > PACKAGES file. > > I have tried the url in the form http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Any ideas?
You need to use a method which supports this form of access. The basic internal method in R does not. It is likely that --internet2 on Windows does. method="wget" does. Since the internal method can handle authentication on proxies, it would not be hard to add this based on the existing code - patches are welcome. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
