[R] calling in inverted commas

[arun]

Hi,
I noticed some special characters after sending.
It should be:
toreplace <- gsub(".*\\.pl\\?(west\\=.*south=.*)\\&params.*","\\1",Url1)
end <- gsub(".*south=.*(\\&params.*)","\\1",Url1) 


A.K.


On Saturday, April 12, 2014 1:06 AM, arun <smartpink111 at yahoo.com> wrote:
HI,

Not sure if this helps:
df2 <- data.frame(Col1=c(68.25, 68.75, 69.25), Col2=c(24.75, 25.25, 25.75)) 


Url1 <- "http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/daac-bin/Giovanni/tovas/Giovanni_cgi.pl?west=68.25&north=24.75&east=68.25&south=24.75¶ms=0%7C3B42_V7&plot_type=Time+Plot&byr=1998&bmo=01&bdy=1&eyr=2007&emo=12&edy=31&begin_date=1998%2F01%2F01&end_date=2014%2F01%2F31&cbar=cdyn&cmin=&cmax=&yaxis=ydyn&ymin=&ymax=&yint=&ascres=0.25x0.25&global_cfg=tovas.global.cfg.pl&instance_id=TRMM_V7∏_id=3B42_daily&action=ASCII+Output" 


toreplace <- gsub(".*\\.pl\\?(west\\=.*south=.*)\\¶ms.*","\\1",Url1)
begin <- gsub("(.*\\.pl\\?).*","\\1",Url1)
end <- gsub(".*south=.*(\\¶ms.*)","\\1",Url1)

vec2 <- strsplit(toreplace,"&")[[1]] 

##replace ".csv" with ".txt" and use write.table() if you need as text files.


lapply(seq_len(nrow(df2)),function(i) { val1 <- as.vector(rep(unlist(df2[i,]),2));replaced <-do.call(paste,list(lapply(seq_along(vec2),function(i) gsub("[-+]?(\\d*[.])?\\d+",val1[i],vec2[i])),collapse="&")); UrlNew <- paste0(begin,replaced,end); res <-read.csv(UrlNew,header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,skip=4,sep="",check.names=FALSE); write.csv(res,file=paste0("file_",paste(val1[1:2],collapse="_"),".csv"),row.names=FALSE,quote=FALSE)})

sapply(list.files(pattern="file_"),function(x) {x1 <-read.csv(x,header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,check.names=FALSE); dim(x1)[1]})
#file_68.25_24.75.csv file_68.75_25.25.csv file_69.25_25.75.csv 

#                3652                 3652                 3652

### reading the downloaded file

lapply(list.files(pattern="file_"),function(x) {x1 <-read.csv(x,header=TRUE,stringsAsFactors=FALSE,check.names=FALSE); x1[5:7,]}) 

#[[1]] 

#  Time(year:month:day) AccRain 

#5           1998:01:05   0.000 

#6           1998:01:06   0.000
#7           1998:01:07   0.984 

# 

#[[2]] 

#  Time(year:month:day) AccRain
#5           1998:01:05  0.0000
#6           1998:01:06  0.0925
#7           1998:01:07  0.2643
#
#[[3]] 

#  Time(year:month:day) AccRain
#5           1998:01:05  0.0000
#6           1998:01:06  0.7043 

#7           1998:01:07  0.5340 



A.K.


On Friday, April 11, 2014 2:38 PM, eliza botto <eliza_botto at hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear useRs,
Here are three steps for downloading a file from a certain website in R. Here you see that in "URL" command (west=68.25&north=24.75&east=68.25&south=24.75) are actually the first and second column values of 1st row of a matrix called df2 (300 rows and 2 columns). more precisely, df2[1,][1]=68.25, df2[1,][2]=24.75. 
Is there a way that I can make a loop so that remaining rows and columns get inculcated in the link as such and then get saved at the desired mentioned location in 300 different text files?
URL<-("http://disc2.nascom.nasa.gov/daac-bin/Giovanni/tovas/Giovanni_cgi.pl?west=68.25&north=24.75&east=68.25&south=24.75¶ms=0%7C3B42_V7&plot_type=Time+Plot&byr=1998&bmo=01&bdy=1&eyr=2007&emo=12&edy=31&begin_date=1998%2F01%2F01&end_date=2014%2F01%2F31&cbar=cdyn&cmin=&cmax=&yaxis=ydyn&ymin=&ymax=&yint=&ascres=0.25x0.25&global_cfg=tovas.global.cfg.pl&instance_id=TRMM_V7∏_id=3B42_daily&action=ASCII+Output")

destfile <- "C:\\Users\\Eliza\\Desktop\\AA\\love.txt"
download.file(URL, destfile)

Any suggestion?
Thankyou very much in advance,
Eliza                           
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