Hi Download the xls file from this link http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls <http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls>
I tried this --------------------------------------------------------------- library(XLConnect) url = "http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls"; local.xls.file = tempfile() download.file(url, local.xls.file) wb = loadWorkbook(local.xls.file, create=F) data = readWorksheet(wb, sheet=1) View(data) --------------------------------------------------------------- no results ... kindly help me thanks veepsirtt -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Download-a-file-from-url-tp4642985p4646215.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.
