On 07.01.2011 19:18, John Kane wrote:


--- 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)

Have you ever tried to open the latter URL in a browser? It fails for me.

Uwe Ligges




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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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