Download a file from url
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 <veepsirtt at 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.
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