Hi R,
I installed wget and tried to download the file from this
http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/16-11-2012-TO-16-11-2012ACCEQN.csv
but it fails.
How to get it using wget?
thanks
veepsirtt
#Define Working Directory, where files would be saved
setwd('G:/NIFTY')
#Define start and end dates, and convert them into date format
startDate = as.Date("2011-01-05", order="ymd")
endDate = as.Date("2011-02-01", order="ymd")
f <- tempfile()
downloadfilename=paste("ACC", "EQN", sep = "")
temp =""
#Generate URL
http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/16-11-2012-TO-16-11-2012ACCEQN.csv
myURL =
paste("http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/";,
as.character(startDate, "%d-%m-%Y"), "-TO-", as.character(endDate,
"%d-%m-%Y"), downloadfilename, ".csv", sep = "")
download.file(myURL, f, method='wget', extra="-U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux)
Gecko Firefox/5.0'")
temp <- read.csv(f, sep = ",")
head(temp)
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