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2008 Oct 01
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changing 'https' to 'http' when using download.file(), any side effects or just use RCurl?
...ding the the download.file()
function does not support HTTPS connections. So therefore, understandably,
the follow produces an error:
### R Code
> url <- "https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2008-October/thread.html"
> destfile <- "//PFO-SBS001/Redirected/tonyb/Desktop/R_web_test/tmp.txt"
> download.file(url, destfile)
Error in download.file(url, destfile) : unsupported URL scheme
My question is: What about if i remove the 's' from the 'https' url? The
download.file() function seems to now work fine (please see below). Did i
just get lucky with the...