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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