Hello, I'm trying to automatically download online data using a URL. Half the time the code works, the other time I get this error: Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection But I cannot for the life of me figure out why it works sometimes and not others. Reading online data is relatively new for me. Snooping around on this error shows that folk use this setInternet2(TRUE) but that doesn't work in my case, as I just end up with this error: Error in setInternet2(TRUE) : use != NA is defunct Any tips on resetting a connection when such errors occur? Here's an example of one of the specific URLs I'm trying to read: URL.1=paste(' http://pick18.discoverlife.org/mp/20m?plot=2&kind=Hypoprepia+fucosa&site=33.9+-83.3&date1=2011,2012,2013,2014,2015&flags=build_txt: ',sep='') readLines(URL.1) URL.2=paste(' http://pick18.discoverlife.org/tmp/Hypoprepia_fucosa_33.9_-83.3_2011,2012,2013,2014,2015.txt ',sep='') X=read.delim(URL.2) Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan Utz, Ph.D. Assistant professor of water resources *chatham**UNIVERSITY* Home/Cell: (724) 272-7769 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]