I am running the following line to download data from the US Energy Information Administration. This function has worked successfully for me in the past but yesterday gave the error/warning messages below.
If I simply type "http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls"; (no quotes) into a browser, the file is available to download. I am running R 2.13.0 on Windows XP. # Download File Attempt download.file("http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls","c:\\temp\\psw09.xls",mode="wb";) # Error & Warning Messages trying URL 'http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls' Error in download.file("http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls";, "c:\\temp\\psw09.xls", : cannot open URL 'http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls' In addition: Warning message: In download.file("http://ir.eia.gov/wpsr/psw09.xls";, "c:\\temp\\psw09.xls", : InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out' Thanks for any insights. Pete Brecknock -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problems-downloading-file-tp4435186p4435186.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@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.
