[R] Accessing data via url

[David Winsemius]

I don't know how Henrique did it, but in Firefox one can go to the  
Downloads panel and right click on the downloaded file and choose  
"Copy Download link" (or something similar) and get:

https://6326258883408400442-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/duplicates.csv?attachauth=ANoY7cpNemjCFz14tAP3IPYCsAnvo-JJbgPNnPEWN_evBHG2jEYaNFOIT6GZF4M3VuKzioPZwvX7QSvMDWfJ3pHac5JK5BHyflOGBLOo_v44C0oU2V6teTwnjeg4TFufeltT-i5T3ThkuyesCztr6g2yLl65YcckwlEGEDtS-L9yzVe1B6tFEu2n6sjAOV9EHokEFx8e-HDFyf-u5mVIGMPgCHvaQL8pupVz-1p1rEdPpS0f6pqApTc%3D&attredirects=0

-- 
David.

On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:35 PM, John Kane wrote:

> Great, but how did you do that?
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> --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url
> To: "John Kane" <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org, "Dieter Menne" <dieter.menne at menne- 
> biomed.de>
> Received: Friday, January 7, 2011, 1:31 PM
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> Google redirect to:
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> https://6326258883408400442-a-1802744773732722657-s-sites.googlegroups.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/duplicates.csv?attachauth=ANoY7crKufJCh6WJtrooAoCEKIYzT9u-TObiYElZaXj2XQhKRI9-oEMyKH3VN8YGuNtMHs2ec2qKeF0YBWrpSd9jTIs2JI4e6aR60v_AirgtSahjNNjoReLiE2XPZrhm4SF_NwCTu9rBwmirss8EP3UKkoAQ8Nm7JW_Sa6C3Jp-kcbSeo-kl4bCXrZ9yMfS_Ex9maq84-ON6GiGuuHbvtNxuF4HLY3UK7HIjupG3fQYzO9p3UkkTH1c%3D&attredirects=0
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:29 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> Well it seems to mean that the file has moved.  It , to my untrained  
> eye, seems to be in the same sport as it was yesterday BTW I am now  
> talking about
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> dd <- "https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/duplicates.csv 
> "
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> Would this indicate it's physically moving on googe servers?
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> I had not realised there was something like  rawToChar(). Amazing  
> what R does.
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> Thank ,
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> --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Henrique Dallazuanna <wwwhsd at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [R] Accessing data via url
> To: "John Kane" <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca>
> Cc: r-help at r-project.org, "Dieter Menne" <dieter.menne at menne- 
> biomed.de>
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> Received: Friday, January 7,
> 2011, 1:21 PM
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> Take a look on the return of:
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>  rawToChar(x)
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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:13 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 1/7/11, Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de> wrote:
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>> From: Dieter Menne <dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de>
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>> Your original file is no longer there, but when I try RCurl
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>> with a png file
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>> that is present, I get a certificate error:
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>> Dieter
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> Since replaced with
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> dd <- "https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/duplicates.csv 
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> library(RCurl)
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> dd <- "https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/duplicates.csv 
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> x = getBinaryURL(dd, ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
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> seems to be downloading a binary file.
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> Thanks
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> Henrique Dallazuanna
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David Winsemius, MD
West Hartford, CT