[R] cURL ?

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Fri May 3 14:13:22 CEST 2013


On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 11:31 AM, jawad hussain <miyanjawad at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Sir
> I tried to find cURL on web but I do not find reliable file; there are some files on http://curl.haxx.se/. But I do not know which is suitable for R and how to install?
> Kind Regards

As usual, the OS is relevant here. What are you running?

Linux package managers should be able to handle this for you. And I'd
have guessed this was a "Just works" for OS X.

MW

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> Jawad Hussain Ashraf
> VPO Aroop, Tehsil and District GujranwalaMobile phone# 03016673275
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>> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:07:05 +0100
>> From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
>> To: miyanjawad at hotmail.com
>> CC: r-help at r-project.org
>> Subject: Re: [R] unsupported url scheme
>>
>> On 28/04/2013 15:32, jawad hussain wrote:
>> > fileUrl <- "https://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD"download.file(fileUrl,destfile="./data/Cameras.csv",method="curl") I tried it after installing package "RCurl" but it give error message: Error in download.file(fileUrl, destfile = "Cameras.csv") :
>> >    unsupported URL schemeI can you help me to solve this problem. JAWAD HUSSAIN ASHRAF
>>
>>
>> Yes, simply install a version of cURL which supports that scheme, then
>> re-install RCurl.
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