[R] wget parameters

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:32:50 -0000

Hi,

Following an example I've received from Phil Spector, I am trying to get
a remote file by using download file.

The concerned remote server doesn't username and password passed with
the URL, thus this line fails...

download.file('http://username:password@xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02','RG02',method='wget')

I can get a free access file without any problem

download.file('http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample01?xpage=plain','RG01',method='wget')

But, of course, access to a protected one fails...

download.file('http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02?xpage=plain','RG02',method='wget')

*Wget does the trick *when executed from the comman line with the
following parameters...

wget --http-user=DummyDummy --http-password=dummy --auth-no-challenge
http://xepecnet.environmentalchange.net/xwiki/bin/view/ICT/RGraphicSample02?xpage=plain



Please, is it possible to pass these parameters to the method wget in
download.file?

Thank you for your help,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team


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