--- On Fri, 1/7/11, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> From: Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url > ?read.table says > > ‘file’ > can also be a complete URL. > > This is implemented by url(): see the section on URLs on > its help Thanks > page. You haven't followed the posting guide and told > us your OS, and> what the section says does depend on the OS. Sorry I thought I had it in my sig file . Added now. R 2.12.0 & Windows 7 > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, John Kane 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 > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, > rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, > Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, > +44 1865 > 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK > Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
