On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 20:57:47 +0530, "Santosh Srinivas" <santosh.srini...@gmail.com> wrote: > It's strange and the internet connection is fine because I am able to get > data from yahoo. > This was working till just yesterday ... strange if the website is creating > issues with public access of basic data! >
It's checking your HTTP UserAgent header. Spoof it for access: > options(HTTPUserAgent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12") > sURL = "http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bhav.csv.zip"; > download.file(sURL,"test") trying URL 'http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bhav.csv.zip' Content type 'application/zip' length 43124 bytes (42 Kb) opened URL ================================================== downloaded 42 Kb -- Alex Gutteridge ______________________________________________ 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.
