On 28.09.2011 15:51, Stefan Petersson wrote:
Prof Brian Ripley<ripley<at> stats.ox.ac.uk> writes:
Who said that RCurl::getURL worked with install.packages?
(At least, I assume this is from RCurl: you did not mention it.)
install.packages() first calls available.packages(), and that uses
download.file to get the PACKAGES[.gz] file. It then calls
download.file to get the packages.
So please read the help for download.file (as the help pages say), and
try the solutions described there.
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011, Stefan Petersson wrote:
The helpfiles for 'download.file' was not that helpful. But maybe it's just me
not being able to read them correctly.
Yes, looks like this is the case.
I tried to call install.packages with the 'method=wget', and hoped for a
username and password dialog. But no luck.
The help page says "if proper values are stored in the configuration
file for wget", so why do you expect a dialog?
Best,
Uwe Ligges
Other than that, I see no arguments
that relates to my problem under ?download.file. Which btw is 'installing an R
library from a password protected URL (Apache Basic Authentication)'.
Actually, nobody said that RCurl::getURL would work with install.packages, but
from what was written in a post somewhere I jumped to the (false) conclusion
that it would work. That's why I tried it.
Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
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