Prof Brian Ripley <ripley <at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes: > > Who said that RCurl::getURL worked with install.packages? > (At least, I assume this is from RCurl: you did not mention it.) > > install.packages() first calls available.packages(), and that uses > download.file to get the PACKAGES[.gz] file. It then calls > download.file to get the packages. > > So please read the help for download.file (as the help pages say), and > try the solutions described there. > > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Stefan Petersson wrote: >
The helpfiles for 'download.file' was not that helpful. But maybe it's just me not being able to read them correctly. I tried to call install.packages with the 'method=wget', and hoped for a username and password dialog. But no luck. Other than that, I see no arguments that relates to my problem under ?download.file. Which btw is 'installing an R library from a password protected URL (Apache Basic Authentication)'. Actually, nobody said that RCurl::getURL would work with install.packages, but from what was written in a post somewhere I jumped to the (false) conclusion that it would work. That's why I tried it. Any hints would be greatly appreciated! ______________________________________________ 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.
