promptPassword = function(prompt, len) { cat(prompt, ": (max of ", len, " characters)> ", sep="") scan(what = "", nmax = 1) } getURL("http://192.168.0.2/stat141/Winter04/Homework/Solutions", passwdfunction = promptPassword) x = getURL("https://my.ucdavis.edu", userpwd = "", header = TRUE, verbose = TRUE, cookiefile = "/home/duncan/Rcookies", netrc = TRUE, maxredirs = as.integer(20), #netrc.file = "/home2/duncan/.netrc1", followlocation = TRUE) # , passwdfunction = promptPassword) print(x)