[R] Download a file from url

[Henrik Bengtsson]

You didn't say what errors you've got but you probably wants to
specify argument mode="wb" in your download.file() call, cf.
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2012-August/064739.html

/Henrik


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:57 AM, veepsirtt <veepsirtt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Download the xls file from this link
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls
> <http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls>
>
> I tried this
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>  library(XLConnect)
> url = "http://www.nseindia.com/content/fo/fii_stats_12-Oct-2012.xls"
> local.xls.file = tempfile()
> download.file(url, local.xls.file)
> wb = loadWorkbook(local.xls.file, create=F)
> data = readWorksheet(wb, sheet=1)
> View(data)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> no results ...
> kindly help me
> thanks
> veepsirtt
>
>
>
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