--- On Thu, 1/6/11, Alberto Negron <albertoneg...@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Alberto Negron <albertoneg...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url To: "John Kane" <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> Cc: "R R-help" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 4:20 PM there is an option in google doc to make public that file providing and http url, try Share -> Public as a web page... it may work if google does not mess up the txt too bad Alberto Already is :( Mind you I hadn't realised that! Thanks though On 6 January 2011 20:59, John Kane <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> wrote: 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 <albertoneg...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Alberto Negron <albertoneg...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url To: "John Kane" <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> Cc: "R R-help" <r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch> 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 <jrkrid...@yahoo.ca> 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 ______________________________________________ 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. [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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