Roland Rau wrote: > Dear all, > > in the past I have been able to access websites with data directly. For > example the following code works nicely > > mydata <- > read.table("http://www.lifetable.de/data/MPIDR/POL_2004.txt", > header=TRUE) > > But what happens if I need a username and password (a different site)? > How do I do that? Or is it not possible to this in R? > I tried something like this > > mydata.frame <- read.table("myusr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/adir/afile.txt") > > but it did not work. > I'd appreciate any hints. > My platform is Win32 (and I am actually running R 2.3.1, but I guess > (hope!) this is not the reason. At least I checked the NEWS file whether > any changes appeared since 2.3.1 which could affect this behavior).
In what way did it not work? The following seems to work for me: read.table("ftp://myusr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/mydir/test.dat") > Thanks, > Roland > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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. -- Chuck Cleland, Ph.D. NDRI, Inc. 71 West 23rd Street, 8th floor New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 845-4495 (Tu, Th) tel: (732) 512-0171 (M, W, F) fax: (917) 438-0894 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch 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.