[R] data manipulation

[David Winsemius]

> On Dec 14, 2016, at 7:17 AM, David L Carlson <dcarlson at tamu.edu> wrote:
> 
> It seems to be a data set for use with Introductory Time Series with R by P S Cowpertwait and A V Metcalfe. It is not just the file that is missing, the whole folder is missing:
> 
> The requested URL /~pscoperwait/ was not found on this server.
> 
> The Springer website for the book indicates the data sets are located at
> 
> http://staff.elena.aut.ac.nz/Paul-Cowpertwait/ts/
> 
> but there is no server at staff.elena.aut.ac.nz. A web search turns up this link:
> 
> http://www.maths.adelaide.edu.au/andrew.metcalfe/
> 
> But the link to cbe.dat and the other data sets are dead.

There were images of them in the Wayback Machine. This appears to be the one originally sought.

https://web.archive.org/web/20130501161812/http://staff.elena.aut.ac.nz/Paul-Cowpertwait/ts/cbe.dat

Many others can be found with this search:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://staff.elena.aut.ac.nz/Paul-Cowpertwait/*


> 
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> David L Carlson
> Department of Anthropology
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX 77840-4352
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Rui Barradas
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2016 6:12 AM
> To: John Kane; Farshad Fathian; r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R] data manipulation
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What do you mean by "gives me something"?
> 
> xx <- read.csv("http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat")
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") :
>   cannot open URL 'http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat': HTTP 
> status was '404 Not Found'
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> 
> Em 14-12-2016 11:56, John Kane via R-help escreveu:
>> xx <- read.csv("http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat")
>> gives me something. Since we have no idea of what you are doing I don't know if the data has downloaded correctly
>> 
>>     On Tuesday, December 13, 2016 1:38 PM, Farshad Fathian <farshad.fathian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>  Hi,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I couldn't access to data file about PSCoperwait by
>> http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Looking forward to hearing from you,
>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA