, Thank you for trying. Strange.
I am using R version 2.6.0 Patched (2007-11-09 r43408) on OSX and it is not working. I guess it has something to do with the language settings. However. Regards Marc Schwenzer john seers (IFR) wrote: > > > Hello > > Works fine for me: > > >> data >> > <-scan(file='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges',what='c > haracter') > Read 3581 items > > > So I don't think it is the Wikipedia end. > > Regards > > John Seers > > > > --- > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of EUROPOL > Sent: 03 December 2007 16:51 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [R] Problem with scan() from UTF-8 encoded URL > > Hallo, > > I am trying to import a website and structure it from within R: > > The following code: > > data <- > scan(file='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges',what='cha > racter') > > results in the error: > > Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition: > Warning message: > cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' in: file(file, "r") > > It seems that the error is connected to the UTF-8-format of wikipedia, > since the following line works: > > data <- scan(file='http://www.google.de',what='character') > > I am looking forward to your answers. > > Greetings > > Marc Schwenzer > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > > ______________________________________________ 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.
