[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote: > Peter McMahan wrote: > >> try something like this: >> username <- "abc" >> pass <- "123" >> >> source(paste("http://",username,":",pass,"@mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/R/3Dsurface.r",sep="")) >> >> >> I'm not sure it'll work but it's worth a try. >> > > Thanks, Peter. It didn't work. I am guessing it depends in any way on > the server this will work or won't work, doesn't it? Have you tried an > http URL passing username and password with any public server I could > try with? I've used this syntax with ftp sites, but never with http > servers. I've tried here with several of the servers I've available and > none of them seems to accept this syntax > I think this is a two stage process:
1) you need to find what the server requires (check its documentation) 2) work out how to deliver the appropriate text string from R Until you determine step 1, speculating on step 2 is a waste of time, Richard -- Dr Richard Rowe Zoology & Tropical Ecology School of Marine & Tropical Biology James Cook University Townsville 4811 AUSTRALIA ph +61 7 47 81 4851 fax +61 7 47 25 1570 JCU has CRICOS Provider Code 00117J ______________________________________________ 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.