Hello R users, I am trying to read files from a website that requires authentication. I have been working with url() to to open a connection in Windows.
For example: setInternet2(TRUE) con <- url(description="http://myusername:mypassw...@www.somesite.com/myfile.txt";, open="r") open(con) read.table(con, sep="\t") This works like a charm. My question is does this work across platforms, or only on Windows? The reason I ask is this quote form the ?url documentation Note that 'https://' connections are only supported if '--internet2' or 'setInternet2(TRUE)' was used (to make use of Internet Explorer internals), and then only if the certificate is considered to be valid. With that option only, the 'http://user:p...@site' notation for sites requiring authentication is also accepted. I am sending some scripts to people who use Mac OS X, and (I am assuming) they will not have Internet Explorer installed. If it does not work, is there a more general way? At least for now, the website is not using encryption (regular http) and is using basic authentication controlled via .htaccess and .htpasswd files. Thanks, Josh -- Joshua Wiley Senior in Psychology University of California, Riverside http://www.joshuawiley.com/ ______________________________________________ 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.
