I don't know. I can access it from within OOo Calc so it might be an authority problem but it seems unlikely or would Google sites have some strange restrictions ?
I did discover that the trees.txt file was rather messed up so I tried again with a clean csv file and I'm still getting the same results. It currently is not all that important but it's definately annoying. --- On Thu, 1/6/11, Alberto Negron <[email protected]> wrote: From: Alberto Negron <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url To: "John Kane" <[email protected]> Cc: "R R-help" <[email protected]> Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 3:38 PM The only difference I see is the http vs https, perhaps you require a sort of auth to access that file. On 6 January 2011 19:53, John Kane <[email protected]> wrote: # Can anyone suggest why this works datafilename <- "http://personality-project.org/r/datasets/maps.mixx.epi.bfi.data"; person.data <- read.table(datafilename,header=TRUE) # but this does not? dd <- "https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/trees.txt"; treedata <- read.table(dd, header=TRUE) =================================================================== Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection In addition: Warning message: In file(file, "rt") : unsupported URL scheme # I can access both through a hyperlink in OOO Calc. t # Thanks ______________________________________________ [email protected] 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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