On 01/11/2010 9:22 AM, Santosh Srinivas wrote:> Dear Group,
>
> My code stopped working ... used to work till last week!
>
> sURL<-
>
"http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha
> v.csv.zip"
>
> > download.file(sURL,"test.zip")
> trying URL
>
'http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha
> v.csv.zip'
> Error in download.file(sURL, "test.zip") :
> cannot open URL
>
'http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/EQUITIES/2010/NOV/cm01NOV2010bha
> v.csv.zip'
> In addition: Warning message:
> In download.file(sURL, "test.zip") :
> cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden'
>
> I put the same URL in a browser and it works just fine.
Are you using a proxy? If you've recently updated R, you may have told
it not to use the proxy. You can test this by running
setInternet2(TRUE)
(which will use a proxy if one is defined in Internet Explorer) and
repeating the download.file() call. You can make Internet2 the default
by putting --internet2 on the command line when you start R.
Duncan Murdoch