Hi, i ran your getURL example and had the same problem with downloading the file.
## R Start.. > library(RCurl) > toString(getURL("http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=2")) [1] "" ## R end. However, if it is interesting that if you manually save the page to your desktop, getURL works fine on it: ## R Start.. > library(URL) > toString(getURL('file:////PFO-SBS001//Redirected//tonyb//Desktop//webpage.html')) [1] "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN\" \"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd\"> \n<html>\n<head>\n\ [etc...] ## R end. very strange indeed.I use RCurl for web crawling every now and again so i would be interested in knowing why this happens too :-) Tony Breyal On 26 Jan, 13:58, "clair.crossup...@googlemail.com" <clair.crossup...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear R-help, > > There seems to be a web page I am unable to download using RCurl. I > don't understand why it won't download: > > > library(RCurl) > > my.url <- > > "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07pro..." > > getURL(my.url) > > [1] "" > > Other web pages are ok to download but this is the first time I have > been unable to download a web page using the very nice RCurl package. > While i can download the webpage using the RDCOMClient, i would like > to understand why it doesn't work as above please? > > > library(RDCOMClient) > > my.url <- > > "http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07pro..." > > ie <- COMCreate("InternetExplorer.Application") > > txt <- list() > > ie$Navigate(my.url) > NULL > > while(ie[["Busy"]]) Sys.sleep(1) > > txt[[my.url]] <- ie[["document"]][["body"]][["innerText"]] > > txt > > $`http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/ > 07program.html?_r=2` > [1] "Skip to article Try Electronic Edition Log ... > > Many thanks for your time, > C.C > > Windows Vista, running with administrator privileges.> sessionInfo() > > R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) > i386-pc-mingw32 > > locale: > LC_COLLATE=English_United Kingdom.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United Kingdom. > 1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United Kingdom. > 1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United Kingdom.1252 > > attached base packages: > [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods > base > > other attached packages: > [1] RDCOMClient_0.92-0 RCurl_0.94-0 > > loaded via a namespace (and not attached): > [1] tools_2.8.1 > > ______________________________________________ > r-h...@r-project.org mailing listhttps://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guidehttp://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ 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.