[R] data manipulation

[David Winsemius]

> On Dec 17, 2016, at 7:57 PM, Duncan Mackay <dulcalma at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi 
> 
> Coming late to the discussion  - I deleted the original message
> I found that I have a cbe.dat that I downloaded some years ago from
> cowpertwaite's site .
> 
> And have attached it

Experience has shown that when you attach a file that you hope to be distributed to the list it needs to have a .txt extension. Leaving it with a .csv, .tsv, or .dat extension will cause it to be dropped by the server, even if the contents of the file are ASCII text.

The URL I offered earlier should have made the file available:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130501161812/http://staff.elena.aut.ac.nz/Paul-Cowpertwait/ts/cbe.dat

... but if there is interest in having it in the Rhelp Archive, I can attach it.



-- 
David.
> 
> If it does not get through will do a dput as the file is only 7K
> 
> Regards
> 
> Duncan
> Duncan Mackay
> Department of Agronomy and Soil Science
> University of New England
> Armidale NSW 2351
> Email: home: mackay at northnet.com.au
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: R-help [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Rui Barradas
> Sent: Thursday, 15 December 2016 01:19
> To: Farshad Fathian; r-help
> Subject: Re: [R] data manipulation
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Please cc your mails to the list.
> As for your data, your url is wrong, you need to contact Massey or maybe 
> the source of your information and get a valid internet address.
> Without one there's not much we can do.
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> Em 14-12-2016 12:16, Farshad Fathian escreveu:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> Thanks for your e-mail. I was reading "Introductory Time Series with R"
>> by PS. Cowperwait. I am going to run the R codes in this book, but I
>> don't access to the input data from
>> ("http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat
>> <http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat>") website.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 3:42 PM, Rui Barradas <ruipbarradas at sapo.pt
>> <mailto:ruipbarradas at sapo.pt>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hello,
>> 
>>    What do you mean by "gives me something"?
>> 
>>    xx <- read.csv("http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat
>>    <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://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
>>        <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 <mailto: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
>>        <http://massey.ac.nz/~pscoperwait/ts/cbe.dat>.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>        Looking forward to hearing from you,
>> 
>> 
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David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA