Hi Christian!
Sorry for being late.
David Winsemius wrote:
On Aug 18, 2010, at 2:58 PM, christiaan pauw wrote:
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
wget is not in R.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wget
I've regained access to this issue. In facts, it has never been solved!
My old message with a solved in it talked about my error sending HTML
formated messages, not about how to deal with this issue. Sorry for not
being clear!
I invested a lot of time looking for a solution but every alternative
fails at one end: XWiki doesn't accept username:password pairs in the
URL yet and I don't know how to pass these parameters to the
download.file R function.
What keeps been truth is that this, for instance, works at command line
(in my case, MacOSX terminal):
wget --http-user=DummyDummy --http-password=dummy --auth-no-challenge
--output-document=RG2.txt
http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02?xpage=plain
And saves RG2.txt in your current directory. But I don't now yet how to
pass parameters like --http-user to method wget in R download.file.
Perhaps you could try this syntax to see if Google accept it.
OK, wget is not in R, but it could be used within R download.file
function, so I would think that this is a possible place to ask about
this topic. Thanks!!!
Greetings,
Ricardo
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Ricardo RodrÃguez
Your XEN ICT Team
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