[R] Read from url requiring authentication?

[Damien]

On 8 Sep, 20:15, Prof Brian Ripley <rip... at stats.ox.ac.uk> 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:p...@site.com").
> > 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