Hi Mike,
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Mike Pfeiff <mi...@kfoc.net> wrote:
> 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?
I'd try first
read.table("http://userid:passw...@my.url/file.csv";), which is the
standard way to do it (hint: try that form in your web browser and see
whether you can access the data), and if that doesn't work look into
the RCurl package. The list archives have a fair bit of information on
this topic.
Sarah
> Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike
>
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Sarah Goslee
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