[R] Problem with scan() from UTF-8 encoded URL

[john seers (IFR)]

Hello

Works fine for me:

> data
<-scan(file='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges',what='c
haracter')
Read 3581 items
> 

So I don't think it is the Wikipedia end.

Regards

John Seers


 
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Sent: 03 December 2007 16:51
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Subject: [R] Problem with scan() from UTF-8 encoded URL

Hallo,

I am trying to import a website and structure it from within R:

The following code:

data <-
scan(file='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Recentchanges',what='cha
racter')

results in the error:

Error in file(file, "r") : unable to open connection In addition:
Warning message:
cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden' in: file(file, "r")

It seems that the error is connected to the UTF-8-format of wikipedia,
since the following line works:

data <- scan(file='http://www.google.de',what='character')

I am looking forward to your answers.

Greetings

Marc Schwenzer

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