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Read Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database Data from the Web
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add Human Cause of Death Database support #7

Open timriffe opened 6 years ago

timriffe commented 6 years ago

website here no authentication needed

ottlngr commented 5 years ago

Meanwhile, authentication is necessary. Sadly no simple user-password-authentication: After a successful login using the browser, a HCDUserId is stored in the respective cookie - not sure if that can be done from within R.

timriffe commented 5 years ago

Thanks for looking into this. The info helps, so that at least a more focused search for a solution is possible.

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ottlngr commented 5 years ago

A possible "solution" is sketched here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15853204/how-to-login-and-then-download-a-file-from-aspx-web-pages-with-r/15897960#15897960 Does not prompt me to get started, tbh...