Is there a way to download a file from that site without registering for the site? If you have a unix/linux shell, what does the 'file' command output?
$ file foo.gz On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 2:11 PM Nick Wray <nickmw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to download data sets from the 1 km Resolution UK Composite > Rainfall Data from the Met Office Nimrod System > > Eg > > CEDA Archive Web Browser > <https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ukmo-nimrod/data/composite/uk-1km/2004> > /badc/ukmo_nimrod/data/composite/uk-1km/2004 > > I can download an individual file (there are lots for each year) as a > .gz.tar and then it appears as a TAR file in the directory I am using. > > I have then used the instruction untar() (targeted on the correct > directory) and what this produces is about a dozen these files which are > labelled as .gz files. They appear in the same folder as the original TAR > folder but as R files (ie although they have .gz in the name they have the > R icon next to them as do any R progs which I have). I can’t open them > though as R progs (which I don’t really think they can be) and trying to > just takes me back to the R studio interface. > > I’ve tried -- read.table (gzfile > ("metoffice-c-band-rain-radar_uk_200404062250_1km-composite.dat.gz")) but > that just gives a load of error messages and I haven’t found any other way > of opening them as .gz files. > > I’m rather baffled – can anyone make any suggestions? Thanks Nick Wray > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > 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. > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
