I am very new to R and have been struggling trying to read a basic ".csv" file from a password protected site with the following code:

myURL  ="http://www.frontierweather.com/degreedays/L15N15PowerRegionAverages_10weeks.txt"
test2=read.table(url(myURL),header=TRUE,sep=",")

A 'data.frame' is returned into the workspace, however it is not the data contained in the ".csv" file.   I think this occurs because the website where I am trying to retrieve the data is password protected.

Is there a way to specify the username and password?

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mike

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