Dear all, so far I tried various things but I did not really succeed: - starting R with --internet2 - using url() - using read.table("http://myusr:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/adir/afile.txt")
I just have an idea what the problem could be for me: The username is actually an email address. So the '@'-character has some ambiguous meaning in my setting. Sorry that I did not think of that beforehand. Thank you very much for your help, Roland Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, 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. > > Well, it could not. You need ftp:// or http:// for this to be a URL. > This ought to work for ftp:, but AFAIK not for http:. You could always > try --internet2: if it works in IE, it will probably also work in R. > >> 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). >> >> 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. >> > ______________________________________________ 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.