On 10/10/07, Gustaf Rydevik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > 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
So, if you download the same file using a web browser it works, ehe? Then look at the file size and you'll most likely find that it is different from when you use R code. Conclusion? Something is different and it works in the web browser so you might tell R to do something different from what you would expect. Hint, look at the set of arguments download.file() takes. That's my $0.02 Henrik > > 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" > > > > > -- > Gustaf Rydevik, M.Sci. > tel: +46(0)703 051 451 > address:Essingetorget 40,112 66 Stockholm, SE > skype:gustaf_rydevik > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
