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

[EUROPOL]

    ,

Thank you for trying. Strange.

I am using R version 2.6.0 Patched (2007-11-09 r43408) on OSX and it is
not working. I guess it has something to do with the language settings.

However.

Regards

Marc Schwenzer

john seers (IFR) wrote:
>  
>
> 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
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> 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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