there is an option in google doc to make public that file providing and http
url, try Share -> Public as a web page... it may work if google does not
mess up the txt too bad

Alberto

On 6 January 2011 20:59, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> I don't know. I can access it from within OOo Calc so it might be an
> authority problem but it seems unlikely or would Google sites have some
> strange restrictions ?
>
>  I did discover that the trees.txt file was rather messed up so I tried
> again with a clean csv file and I'm still getting the same results.  It
> currently is not all that important but it's definately annoying.
>
> --- On *Thu, 1/6/11, Alberto Negron <albertoneg...@gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Alberto Negron <albertoneg...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url
> To: "John Kane" <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca>
> Cc: "R R-help" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch>
> Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 3:38 PM
>
>
> The only difference I see is the http vs https, perhaps you require a sort
> of auth to access that file.
>
> On 6 January 2011 19:53, John Kane 
> <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca<http://mc/compose?to=jrkrid...@yahoo.ca>
> > wrote:
>
> #   Can anyone suggest why this works
>
> datafilename <- "
> http://personality-project.org/r/datasets/maps.mixx.epi.bfi.data";
> person.data  <- read.table(datafilename,header=TRUE)
>
> # but this does not?
>
> dd <- "
> https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/trees.txt";
> treedata <- read.table(dd, header=TRUE)
>
> ===================================================================
>
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : unsupported URL scheme
>
> # I can access both through a hyperlink in OOO Calc. t
> #  Thanks
>
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