Re: [R] R-help Digest, Vol 128, Issue 5

Hi Peter, The ssconvert tool (part of gnumeric) is very good at converting spreadsheets to csv-files. There is a wrapper in the "gnumeric" package on cran. Cheers, Thomas > Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 09:08:50 +0100 > From: Barry Rowlingson > To: Peter Maclean > Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" > Subjec

[R] RCurl and kerberos

Dear list, I would like to call a Kerberos-authenticated web-service from within R. Curl can do it: $ curl --negotiate -u : "http://my.web.service/"; so I would expect that RCurl also has the capability, but I have not been able to find the correct options to set. listCurlOptions() does not re

Re: [R] RCurl and kerberos

Hi again, RCurl is just smarter than me: getURL("http://my.web.service",.opts=curlOptions(username=":")) does the trick. Don't know how I missed that yesterday. Hope nobody wated time on this. Cheers, Thomas > -Original Message- > From: TAPO (Thomas Ag