You didn't say what errors you've got but you probably wants to specify argument mode="wb" in your download.file() call, cf. https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064739.html
/Henrik On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, veepsirtt <veepsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Download the xls file from this link > http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls > <http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls> > > I tried this > --------------------------------------------------------------- > library(XLConnect) > url = "http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls"; > local.xls.file = tempfile() > download.file(url, local.xls.file) > wb = loadWorkbook(local.xls.file, create=F) > data = readWorksheet(wb, sheet=1) > View(data) > --------------------------------------------------------------- > no results ... > kindly help me > thanks > veepsirtt > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Download-a-file-from-url-tp4642985p4646215.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > 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 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.
