On Wed, 4 Dec 2002 ripley@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote:
On 4 Dec 2002, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote:
fharrell@virginia.edu writes:
Full_Name: Frank Harrell Version: 1.6.1 OS: RedHat 8.0 Linux Submission from: (NULL) (128.143.108.90) I get an error when trying to load a URL that contains a file that was saved using save(object, compress=TRUE):
Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : unable to open connection In addition: Warning message: cannot open compressed file `http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/data/sav/kprats.sav' The above file will remain at that URL for your testing.
The root of the issue is that gzfile() doesn't know about URLs. Not documented to either, but (on the face of things) it would seem easy to add the feature.
Right, this is not what the `file' argument of load() is documented as.
That is neither a file name nor a connection.
I am worried about attempting to get a binary file over a url connection,
but in principle what you should do is
load(url('http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/data/sav/kprats.sav'))
That fails I think because the connection cannot handle binary files,
but I will look further when I have time.
Not sure if being binary creates problems as such, but what the connection would provide if it is working properly is the compressed data, and we wo not currently have the tools to decompress off a connection, as far as I know. luke
Luke Tierney University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: luke@stat.uiowa.edu Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu