[R] wget parameters

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team
Sun, 09 Aug 2009 21:37:42 -0000

Please, accept my apologies for keeping posting in HTML format! Solved!

Greetings,

Ricardo

[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team wrote:
> 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 at
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 Rodr?guez
Your XEN ICT Team