Your R build does not support HTTPS. I suggest that you use the curl package if you can. HTTP support in base R is very limited currently.
Gabor On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Christofer Bogaso <bogaso.christo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi again, > > I posted this in general R thread, however it is suggested this group > since I am using MAC OS 10.7.5. > > I was following the instruction available in > "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053833/using-r-to-download-zipped-data-file-extract-and-import-data" > to download data from Internet contained in a zip file from the > address : > > https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip > > However when I tried to follow the instruction I am facing below error : > >> temp <- tempfile() >> download.file("https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip",temp) > Error in > download.file("https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip", > : > unsupported URL scheme > > Can someone here please tell me what went wrong in above? > > Highly appreciate your feedback. > > Thanks for your time. > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac