Hi Ricardo and everybody

In this old post to rhelp you say that the problem was solved but not what
the sollution was. I have the same problem now. I want to read a Excel file
from a google site that has restricted access so I need to give a username
and password at some point. I could not find an example or a help file that
shows how this can be done. You post is one of few but it does not contain
the answer

I would be very glad if you could share to sollution

best regards
Christiaan


On 9 August 2009 23:37, [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team <
webmaster@xen.net> wrote:

> Please, accept my apologies for keeping posting in HTML format! Solved!
>
> Greetings,
>
> Ricardo
>
>
> [Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Following an example I've received from Phil Spector, I am trying to get a
>> remote file by using download file.
>>
>> The concerned remote server doesn't username and password passed with the
>> URL, thus this line fails...
>>
>> download.file('
>> http://username:password@xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02
>> ','RG02',method='wget')
>>
>> I can get a free access file without any problem
>>
>> download.file('
>> http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample01?xpage=plain
>> ','RG01',method='wget')
>>
>> But, of course, access to a protected one fails...
>>
>> download.file('
>> http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02?xpage=plain
>> ','RG02',method='wget')
>>
>> *Wget does the trick *when executed from the comman line with the
>> following parameters...
>>
>> wget --http-user=DummyDummy --http-password=dummy --auth-no-challenge
>> http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02?xpage=plain
>>
>>
>>
>> Please, is it possible to pass these parameters to the method wget in
>> download.file?
>>
>> Thank you for your help,
>>
>> Ricardo
>>
>>
>>
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