On 07/02/2015 10:52 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
From R 3.2.0, check:capabilities("libcurl")libcurl TRUE TRUE means R was built such that HTTPS is supported. If you see FALSE, make sure libcurl is available when/if you build R from source.
I do have TRUE for this. The default behaviour still does not work. Paul
/Henrik On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:46 PM, Paul Gilbert <pgilbert...@gmail.com> wrote:(This problem with download.file() affects quantmod, and possibly several other packages. e.g. getSymbols('M2',src='FRED') fails.) I think the St Louis Fed has moved to using https for connections, and I believe all the US government web sites are doing this. An http request is automatically switched to https. The default download.file method does not seem to handle this, but method="wget" does:tmp <- tempfile() download.file("http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv";, destfile = tmp)trying URL 'http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv' Error in download.file("http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv";, : cannot open URL 'http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv'download.file("http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv";, destfile = tmp, method="wget")--2015-07-02 22:29:49-- http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv Resolving research.stlouisfed.org (research.stlouisfed.org)... 65.89.18.120 Connecting to research.stlouisfed.org (research.stlouisfed.org)|65.89.18.120|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently Location: https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv [following] --2015-07-02 22:29:49-- https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2/downloaddata/M2.csv Connecting to research.stlouisfed.org (research.stlouisfed.org)|65.89.18.120|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/x-comma-separated-values] Saving to: â/tmp/RtmpOX7kA1/file1ba639d7fd0fâ [ <=> ] 34,519 178KB/s in 0.2s 2015-07-02 22:29:50 (178 KB/s) - â/tmp/RtmpOX7kA1/file1ba639d7fd0fâ saved [34519] Paul ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
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