Nope Duncan ... no changes .. the same old way without a proxy ... actually the download.file is being returned "403 forbidden" which is strange.
These are just two lines that I am trying to run. sURL<- "http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha v.csv.zip" download.file(sURL,"test.zip") Put the same URL in a browser and it works fine. -----Original Message----- From: Duncan Murdoch [mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com] Sent: 01 November 2010 19:04 To: Santosh Srinivas Cc: 'Rhelp' Subject: Re: [R] File Downloading Problem On 01/11/2010 9:22 AM, Santosh Srinivas wrote: > Dear Group, > > My code stopped working ... used to work till last week! > > sURL<- > "http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha > v.csv.zip" > > > download.file(sURL,"test.zip") > trying URL > 'http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha > v.csv.zip' > Error in download.file(sURL, "test.zip") : > cannot open URL > 'http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha > v.csv.zip' > In addition: Warning message: > In download.file(sURL, "test.zip") : > cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' > > I put the same URL in a browser and it works just fine. Are you using a proxy? If you've recently updated R, you may have told it not to use the proxy. You can test this by running setInternet2(TRUE) (which will use a proxy if one is defined in Internet Explorer) and repeating the download.file() call. You can make Internet2 the default by putting --internet2 on the command line when you start R. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.
