I may be wrong, but probably better posted on r-sig-debian rather than here.
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sticking things into it."
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 8:44 AM Sam H <sam.h...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to download some data using read.csv and it works perfectly in
> RStudio and fails in the R console in the terminal in Ubuntu 18.04 after
> upgrading from R 3.6.3 to 4.0.2. Before upgrading this worked in the R
> console in the terminal also without any issues.
>
> Why would that be? How to fix this?
>
> Below please find R code output and sessionInfo().
>
> *Works in RStudio*
>
> > read.csv("
> https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=1&render=download";,
> header=TRUE, as.is=TRUE, na="n/a")
> Symbol Name
> LastSale MarketCap IPOyear1 TXG
> 10x Genomics, Inc. 87.4400 $8.6B 20192 YI
> 111, Inc. 6.4800 $533.69M 20183
> PIH 1347 Property Insurance Holdings, Inc. 4.5350
> $27.52M 2014
> sessionInfo()
> R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas/libblas.so.3
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblasp-r0.2.20.so
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:[1] stats graphics grDevices utils
> datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):[1] compiler_4.0.2 tools_4.0.2
>
> *Fails in R console in terminal*
>
> > read.csv("
> https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=1&render=download
> ",
> header=TRUE, as.is=TRUE, na="n/a")
> Error in file(file, "rt") :
> cannot open the connection to
> '
> https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=1&render=download
> '
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
> URL '
> https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=1&render=download
> ':
> status was 'Failure when receiving data from the peer'> traceback()3:
> file(file, "rt")2: read.table(file = file, header = header, sep = sep,
> quote = quote,
> dec = dec, fill = fill, comment.char = comment.char, ...)1:
> read.csv("
> https://old.nasdaq.com/screening/companies-by-name.aspx?letter=0&exchange=1&render=download
> ",
> header = TRUE, as.is = TRUE, na = "n/a")> sessionInfo()
> R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
>
> Matrix products: default
> BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openblas/libblas.so.3
> LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libopenblasp-r0.2.20.so
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
> [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
> [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11]
> LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
>
> attached base packages:[1] stats graphics grDevices utils
> datasets methods base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):[1] compiler_4.0.2>
>
> I also asked this question here
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62898008/why-read-csv-fails-in-r-console-in-ubuntu-terminal-but-works-in-rstudio-after-r
> . Since there was no answer on stackoverflow I sent this question also to
> this list.
>
> Best regards,
> Sam
>
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