you can use RCurl for web connections from Duncan Lang, see its paper: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf
getURL there will solve your problem. On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:07 AM, veepsirtt <veepsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Download-a-file-from-url-tp4642985p4649907.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > 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. ______________________________________________ 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.
