Message-ID: <AFA101E3-16E6-424D-8967-A582D0092369@comcast.net>
Date: 2013-06-15T19:03:43Z
From: David Winsemius
Subject: Downloading CSV file - RCurl help
In-Reply-To: <1371321711500-4669616.post@n4.nabble.com>
On Jun 15, 2013, at 11:41 AM, jcrosbie wrote:
> There are some CSV file from the link below.
>
> I'm having trouble installing the package. Is this the package I have to use
> or is there another one I need to use? If so how do I get this one loaded.
>
>
>
> https://www.enmax.com/Power/Energy+Retailers/Settlement+Reports/Profile+settlement+report.htm
>
> install.packages("RCurl", repos =
> "http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/RCurl_1.95-4.1.zip",
> type="source")
Packages of type="source" are not generally distributed as zip files. So R is unable to find it in the CRAN source directory. If you do want source you will also need RTools. But why not install as a binary file?
> Installing package into ?C:/Users/James/Documents/R/win-library/3.0?
> (as ?lib? is unspecified)
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/RCurl_1.95-4.1.zip/src/contrib
> Warning message:
> package ?RCurl? is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
>
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA