Mr Jeffrey Breen mailed me the following code. but it is not giving me the results under Windows 7.
With regards veepsirtt' 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, method='wget', extra="-U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux) Gecko Firefox/5.0'") wb = loadWorkbook(local.xls.file, create=F) data = readWorksheet(wb, sheet=1) -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Download-a-file-from-url-tp4642985p4646252.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.
