Re: [R] Using download.file() to grab information from a Password Protected Website

2012-04-04 Thread R. Michael Weylandt
Authenticated access is sometimes a little harder than a simple download -- the RCurl package provides tools that will be helpful, but you'll need to tailor things to the sort of authentication used on the other end. getURL iprovides one example of password authentication in the examples. If you ar

[R] Using download.file() to grab information from a Password Protected Website

2012-04-04 Thread Michael Roberts
I am new to R and have been spinning my wheels on the following. *Issue:* I have a membership to a website, and I want to grab data from the website using download.file(). download.file(url, destfile, method, quiet = T, mode = "w", cacheOK = TRUE) The R Documentation is helpful. However, I have