Re: [R] Read from url requiring authentication?
René Sachse wrote: Damien schrieb: I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires authentication. Under a Windows Operating System you could try to start R with the --internet2 option. This worked in my case. Thanks René it did the trick for me too! Best Regards, Damien __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Read from url requiring authentication?
On 8 Sep, 20:15, Prof Brian Ripley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Damien wrote: Hi all, I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires authentication. After failing to find some kind of connection structure to fill in I turned to explicitly stating the credentials in the url itself (e.g. http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Sadly this didn't do the trick either and both source() and url() failed trying to resolve the username () Is there anything I missed in the documentation/internet/groups? If not could I maybe add to the existing R functions as it doesn't seem too far of a stretch to allow the username and password in the url string fed to the web server? Look at the RCurl package: it is more like download.file than url, though, and you could perhaps wse the wget method of download.file. Thank you for the quick reply, it seems that the argument --internet2 did solve my immediate problem but I'll have a look at RCurl too. Best Regards, Damien __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] Read from url requiring authentication?
Hi all, I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires authentication. After failing to find some kind of connection structure to fill in I turned to explicitly stating the credentials in the url itself (e.g. http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Sadly this didn't do the trick either and both source() and url() failed trying to resolve the username () Is there anything I missed in the documentation/internet/groups? If not could I maybe add to the existing R functions as it doesn't seem too far of a stretch to allow the username and password in the url string fed to the web server? Thanks, Damien __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Read from url requiring authentication?
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Damien wrote: Hi all, I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires authentication. After failing to find some kind of connection structure to fill in I turned to explicitly stating the credentials in the url itself (e.g. http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Sadly this didn't do the trick either and both source() and url() failed trying to resolve the username () Is there anything I missed in the documentation/internet/groups? If not could I maybe add to the existing R functions as it doesn't seem too far of a stretch to allow the username and password in the url string fed to the web server? Look at the RCurl package: it is more like download.file than url, though, and you could perhaps wse the wget method of download.file. -- 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, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] Read from url requiring authentication?
Damien schrieb: I'm looking into opening an url on a server which requires authentication. Under a Windows Operating System you could try to start R with the --internet2 option. This worked in my case. Best regards Rene __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
