On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Gustaf Rydevik wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file > command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if > it's going ok, however. > Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
That is a binary file. You needed mode="wb". The R posting guide did ask you to update your R before posting, so better late than never. > > regards, > > Gustaf Rydevik > > ---- >> download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls";) > trying URL 'http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls' > Content type 'application/vnd.ms-excel' length 77824 bytes > opened URL > downloaded 76Kb >> sessionInfo() > R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" "datasets" "methods" > [7] "base" > > other attached packages: > RWinEdt > "1.7-5" >> Sys.getlocale() > [1] > "LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252" >> > > > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ 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.
