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Dear R-help, There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I don't understand why it won't download: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2" > getURL(my.url) [1] "" Other web pages are ok to download but this is the first time I have been unable to download a

Hi, I was trying to copy a directory from one location to another. Is there a command to do this (similar to the file.copy command)? thanks! [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello R Experts, does anyone know how to run R programs automatically using the window scheduler? I want to run some R programs automatically and make the results available via web. Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards / С наилучшими пожеланиями / üdvözlettel Thorsten [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear list, I am trying to download a text file from an ftp site using download.file(). I used the following code: url <- "ftp://ftp.wcc.nrcs.usda.gov/data/snow/snow_course/table/history/idaho/13e19.txt" dest <- "c:/test/downloadtest.txt" download.file(url, dest) I get this error message, indicating that R is unable to open the connection: trying URL

Dear R-help, I want to download the text from a web page, however what i end up with is the html code. Is there some option that i am missing in the RCurl package? Or is there another way to achieve this? This is the code i am using: > library(RCurl) > my.url <- 'https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help' > html.file <- getURI(my.url, ssl.verifyhost = FALSE,

Dear R-Help, I am looking into using the Open Calais web service (http:// sws.clearforest.com/calaisViewer/) for text mining purposes. I would like to use R to post text into one of the forms on their website. In package RCurl, there is a function called postForm(). This sounds like it would do the job. Unfortunately the URL used in the example is no longer valid (i have emailed the maintainer

Dear all, I am having a problem downloading webpages through R when i run it in the DOS window under Windows Vista Basic. I have downloaded the batchfiles from http://code.google.com/p/batchfiles/ and have successfully set the PATH. I open up 'Command Prompt' in Vista and type (after the C:\...> stuff): ### START ### C:\Users\Karen>Rscript -e "library(RCurl);

Dear R-Help, I need to convert a set of '.pdf' files into an equivalent set of '.txt' files. This is so that i can do some text mining on the content. In the latest R-News letter (http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/ Rnews_2008-2.pdf), the package 'tm' for text mining is mentioned. In that lovely package, there is a function called 'readPDF()'. In order to use

fileUrl <- "https://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD"download.file(fileUrl,destfile="./data/Cameras.csv",method="curl") I tried it after installing package "RCurl" but it give error message: Error in download.file(fileUrl, destfile = "Cameras.csv") : unsupported URL schemeI can you help me to solve this

> On Oct 15, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear all, > > i am trying to download time-series climatic data from GES DISC (NASA) > Hydrology Data Rods web-service. Unfortunately, no wget method is > available. > > Five parameters are needed for data retrieval: variable, location, > startDate, endDate, and type. For example:

Hi, I'm trying to download some data from the web and am running into problems with 'embedded null' characters. These seem to indicate to R that it should stop processing the page so I'd like to remove them. I've been looking around and can't seem to identify exactly what the character is and consequently how to remove it. # THE CODE WORKS ON THIS PAGE library(RCurl)

Dear David, This is amazing, thank you so much. If I may ask another question: The output looks like the following: ### dput(head(x,15)) c("Metadata for Requested Time Series:", "", "prod_name=GLDAS_NOAH025_3H_v2.0", "param_short_name=Tair_f_inst", "param_name=Near surface air temperature", "unit=K",

Dear all, i am trying to download time-series climatic data from GES DISC (NASA) Hydrology Data Rods web-service. Unfortunately, no wget method is available. Five parameters are needed for data retrieval: variable, location, startDate, endDate, and type. For example: ###

Dear all, I am looking for a way to work out if a file on the internet exists before attempting to download it using the function download.file(). For example, using a url that does not exist url <- "http://finance.yahoo.com/ftse.csv" destfile <- tempfile() download.file(url = url, destfile = destfile) # gives the following response ... trying URL

Hi, I have problems downloading complete folders via ftp with R. Single files work fine. I tried Rcurl, but it does not work. This is my code: url = "ftp://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/data/TRMM/Gridded/Derived_Products/3B42_V6/Daily/2009/" filenames = getURL(url, ftp.use.epsv = FALSE, ftplistonly = TRUE, crlf = TRUE) filenames = paste(url, strsplit(filenames, "\r*\n")[[1]], sep =

> On Oct 15, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear David, > > This is amazing, thank you so much. If I may ask another question: > > The output looks like the following: > > ### > dput(head(x,15)) > c("Metadata for Requested Time Series:", "", "prod_name=GLDAS_NOAH025_3H_v2.0", >

Dear R-help, The following code downloads an html document into variable 'doc' and then stores an internal representation into variable 'html.tree'. Even if the html code is malformed, this still works which is fantastic. However, as in the example below, i do get some ouput from R in the console which i would like to suppress somehow, so i can keep my window a bit cleaner. I

I have done the following using readLines directory <- "~/" files <- list.files(directory) data_frames <- vector("list", length(files)) for (i in seq_along(files)) { df <- readLines(file.path(directory, files[i])) df <- df[-(1:13)] df <- data.frame(year = substr(df,1,4), month = substr(df, 6,7), day =

Dear Ruser, > > > I am trying to use the map library. But unfortunately I am facing the > warning message above: > Warning message: > *In readGDAL(destfile, silent = TRUE) : GeoTransform values not available > * I want to use that library because I intend to plot some station in a Brazilian map. I really appreciate any help. > > ===here what I was testing========

Hola a tod@s! Estoy dando mis primeros pasos con R, y mi objetivo es conseguir descargar tweets de cuentas concretas de twitter. Encontre documentación sobre el package twitteR, y he intentado aplicarlo, pero siempre tengo problemas a la hora de conseguir la autentificación con OAuth. Este es el código que estoy utilizando: options( RCurlOptions = list(verbose = TRUE, proxy =