Thanks for the tip. From the link you posted: | You can embed the user id and password into the URL. For example: | | http://userid:passw...@www.anywhere.com/ | ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/
I'm still having issues, though. I am trying to fetch some csv files from a storage site used by my company, and I've tried the read.csv and download.file commands. These are the error messages that pop up: > read.csv("ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/data.csv") Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection > download.file("ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/data.csv", > "C:/data.csv") trying URL 'ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/data.csv' Error in download.file("ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/data.csv", : cannot open URL 'ftp://userid:passw...@ftp.anywhere.com/data.csv' Am I leaving out any important options from these commands, that would allow me to access the site if I include them? When I type the URL into Firefox the same way I have entered it into R, I get the files I need. But for my particular project, I am going to have to automate the process. Obviously these are not my real userID, password, or website name. In case it is relevant, I am trying to access files that store information on the positions in my company's stock portfolio; these files are stored on our brokerage firm's website. -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Accessing-files-on-password-protected-FTP-sites-tp2286862p2287373.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org 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.