Hi Daisy
Use getURLContent() rather than getURL().
The former handles binary content and this appears to be a zip file.
You can write it to a file or read its contents directly in memory, e.g
library(RCurl)
z =
getURLContent("http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia";)
attributes(z)
library(Rcompression)
ar = zipArchive(z)
names(ar)
getZipInfo(ar)
ar[["data.csv"]]
dd = read.csv(textConnection(ar[["data.csv"]]))
D.
On 7/23/13 2:59 AM, Daisy Englert Duursma wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to use R to download a bunch of .csv files such as:
>
> http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia
>
> I have tried the following and neither work:
>
> a<- getURL("
> http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia";)
>
> Error in curlPerform(curl = curl, .opts = opts, .encoding = .encoding) :
> embedded nul in string:
> and
>
> a<-httpPOST("
> http://biocache.ala.org.au/ws/occurrences/download?q=Banksia+ericifolia";)
>
> Error: Internal Server Error
>
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Daisy
>
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