[R] How to access https page

[Jorge I Velez]

Hi Hui,

I have used the source_url function in the devtools package with good
results.  Give it a shot!

Best,
Jorge.-


On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Hui Du <hui.du at savvyrookies.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to parse some information from website, say, a linkedin page.
> The linkedin url was
>
> url = "http://www.linkedin.com/in/huidu"
>
> I had no problem to use readLines and XML package to collect the
> information I need. However, that url became "
> https://www.linkedin.com/in/huidu" now.
>
> url = "https://www.linkedin.com/in/huidu"
>
> It failed readLines function.
>
> > readLines(url)
> Error in file(con, "r") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(con, "r") : unsupported URL scheme
>
>
> Do you know any way to read-in web information if the url is https? Thanks
> a lot.
>
> Hui
>
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