I have never used that package, but it seems obvious to me that you need to "reflect" on the meaning of the word "mirror". There is no reason to assume that a site hosting a mirror of the CRAN archive is also going to host a mirror of Project Gutenberg [1].
If, after you know you are giving reasonable inputs the package does not seem to work as designed, please remember that contributed packages have maintainers [2] and not all of them subscribe to r-help. [1] https://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL [2] ?maintainer -- Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity. On January 23, 2018 11:23:06 PM PST, Patrick Connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz> wrote: > >I've been working through https://www.tidytextmining.com/tidytext.html >wherein everything worked until I got to this part in section 1.5 > >> hgwells <- gutenberg_download(c(35, 36, 5230, 159)) >Determining mirror for Project Gutenberg from >http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest >Error in open.connection(con, "rb") : > Failed to connect to www.gutenberg.org port 80: Connection timed out > >Which indicates the problem is at the very start: > > if (is.null(mirror)) { > mirror <- gutenberg_get_mirror(verbose = verbose) > } > >The documentation for gutenberg_get_mirror indicates there's nothing >different I could set. > >So I tried specifying my usual mirror: > >> hgwells <- gutenberg_download(c(1260, 768, 969, 9182, 767), mirror = >"http://cran.stat.auckland.ac.nz";) >Error in read_zip_url(full_url) : could not find function >"read_zip_url" >> > >Which is, indeed, strange since according to > >> help.search("read_zip_url") >Help files with alias or concept or title matching ‘read_zip_url’ using >regular expression matching: > > >gutenbergr::read_zip_url > Read a file from a .zip URL > Aliases: read_zip_url > >[...] > >And according to >library(help = "gutenbergr") > >[...] >Index: > >gutenberg_authors Metadata about Project Gutenberg authors >gutenberg_download Download one or more works using a Project > Gutenberg ID >gutenberg_get_mirror Get the recommended mirror for Gutenberg files >gutenberg_metadata Gutenberg metadata about each work >gutenberg_strip Strip header and footer content from a Project > Gutenberg book >gutenberg_subjects Gutenberg metadata about the subject of each > work >gutenberg_works Get a filtered table of Gutenberg work metadata >read_zip_url Read a file from a .zip URL > >[...] > >However, when I look at the list for that part of the search(), there >is no read_zip_url but all the rest of that list are present. So it's >not surprising that it isn't found. But it puzzles me that it is not >there. > >Ideas as to where I should proceed gratefully appreciated. > > >> sessionInfo() >R version 3.4.2 (2017-09-28) >Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >Running under: Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS > >Matrix products: default >BLAS: /home/hrapgc/local/R-3.4.2/lib/libRblas.so >LAPACK: /home/hrapgc/local/R-3.4.2/lib/libRlapack.so > >locale: > [1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C > [3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8 > [7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C > [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C >[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C > >attached base packages: >[1] grDevices utils stats graphics methods base > >other attached packages: >[1] sos_2.0-0 brew_1.0-6 gutenbergr_0.1.3 >ggplot2_2.2.1 >[5] stringr_1.2.0 bindrcpp_0.2 dplyr_0.7.4 >janeaustenr_0.1.5 >[9] tidytext_0.1.6 FactoMineR_1.38 readxl_1.0.0 tm_0.7-3 > >[13] NLP_0.1-11 wordcloud_2.5 RColorBrewer_1.1-2 >lattice_0.20-35 > >loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] Rcpp_0.12.13 cellranger_1.1.0 compiler_3.4.2 > [4] plyr_1.8.4 bindr_0.1 tokenizers_0.1.4 > [7] tools_3.4.2 gtable_0.2.0 tibble_1.3.4 >[10] nlme_3.1-131 pkgconfig_2.0.1 rlang_0.1.2 >[13] Matrix_1.2-11 psych_1.7.8 curl_3.0 >[16] parallel_3.4.2 xml2_1.1.1 cluster_2.0.6 >[19] hms_0.3 flashClust_1.01-2 grid_3.4.2 >[22] scatterplot3d_0.3-40 glue_1.1.1 ellipse_0.3-8 >[25] R6_2.2.2 foreign_0.8-69 readr_1.1.1 >[28] purrr_0.2.4 tidyr_0.7.2 reshape2_1.4.2 >[31] magrittr_1.5 scales_0.5.0 SnowballC_0.5.1 >[34] MASS_7.3-47 leaps_3.0 assertthat_0.2.0 >[37] mnormt_1.5-5 colorspace_1.3-2 labeling_0.3 >[40] stringi_1.1.5 lazyeval_0.2.1 munsell_0.4.3 >[43] slam_0.1-42 broom_0.4.2 >> > >-- >~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > > ___ Patrick Connolly > {~._.~} Great minds discuss ideas > _( Y )_ Average minds discuss events >(:_~*~_:) Small minds discuss people > (_)-(_) ..... Eleanor Roosevelt > >~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~. > >______________________________________________ >R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >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. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see 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.
