[R] passing username and password to source()

[[Ricardo Rodriguez] Your XEN ICT Team]

Peter McMahan wrote:
> try something like this:
>     username <- "abc"
>     pass <- "123"
>     
> source(paste("http://",username,":",pass,"@mire.environmentalchange.net/~webmaster/R/3Dsurface.r",sep="")) 
>
> I'm not sure it'll work but it's worth a try. 

Thanks, Peter. It didn't work. I am guessing it depends in any way on 
the server this will work or won't work, doesn't it? Have you tried an 
http URL passing username and password with any public server I could 
try with? I've used this syntax with ftp sites, but never with http 
servers. I've tried here with several of the servers I've available and 
none of them seems to accept this syntax.

Thanks for your help,

Ricardo

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Ricardo Rodríguez
Your XEN ICT Team