Internet connection
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Gary <gwengstrom at yahoo.com> wrote:
Tried several ways to connect to Internet. Perhaps R help could point me in the right direction to make this connection work. setInternet2(use = TRUE)
download.file("
+ http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/322090/322090,1307359665,10/stock-photo-car-silhouette-for-race-sports-design-vector-version-also-available-in-gallery-78667174.jpg + ", + destfile=file.path("..", "Desktop/racing_car.jpg"), mode="wb") Error in download.file("\nhttp://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/322090/322090,1307359665,10/stock-photo-car-silhouette-for-race-sports-design-vector-version-also-available-in-gallery-78667174.jpg\n", :
Off the cuff, it seems that the newline breaks around the link but inside the quote marks are your problem. See the "\n" at the front and back of the URL -- shouldn't be there. MW
unsupported URL scheme
G
[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
______________________________________________ R-help at 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.