Hi all, I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if it's going ok, however. Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
regards, Gustaf Rydevik ---- >download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls";) trying URL 'http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls' Content type 'application/vnd.ms-excel' length 77824 bytes opened URL downloaded 76Kb > sessionInfo() R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) i386-pc-mingw32 locale: LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252 attached base packages: [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" [7] "base" other attached packages: RWinEdt "1.7-5" > Sys.getlocale() [1] "LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252" > -- Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. tel: +46(0)703 051 451 address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE skype:gustaf_rydevik ______________________________________________ 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.
