[R] [EXT] Downloading a directory of text files into R

[Andrew Robinson]

Hi Bob,

there may be more efficient ways to go about it but I would use R to scrape the contents of

http://home.brisnet.org.au/~bgreen/Data/Hanson1/
http://home.brisnet.org.au/~bgreen/Data/Hanson2/

in order to form the URLs of the files, and then loop over the URLs.

Cheers,

Andrew

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On 26 Jul 2023 at 8:07 AM +1000, Bob Green <bgreen using dyson.brisnet.org.au>, wrote:
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Hello,

I am seeking advice as to how I can download the 833 files from this
site:"http://home.brisnet.org.au/~bgreen/Data"

I want to be able to download them to perform a textual analysis.

If the 833 files, which are in a Directory with two subfolders were
on my computer I could read them through readtext. Using readtext I
get the error:

> x = readtext("http://home.brisnet.org.au/~bgreen/Data/*")
Error in download_remote(file, ignore_missing, cache, verbosity) :
Remote URL does not end in known extension. Please download the
file manually.

> x = readtext("http://home.brisnet.org.au/~bgreen/Data/Dir/()")
Error in download_remote(file, ignore_missing, cache, verbosity) :
Remote URL does not end in known extension. Please download the
file manually.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Bob

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