The only difference I see is the http vs https, perhaps you require a sort
of auth to access that file.

On 6 January 2011 19:53, John Kane <jrkrideau@yahoo.ca> wrote:

> #   Can anyone suggest why this works
>
> datafilename <- "
> http://personality-project.org/r/datasets/maps.mixx.epi.bfi.data"
> person.data  <- read.table(datafilename,header=TRUE)
>
> # but this does not?
>
> dd <- "
> https://sites.google.com/site/jrkrideau/home/general-stores/trees.txt"
> treedata <- read.table(dd, header=TRUE)
>
> ===================================================================
>
> Error in file(file, "rt") : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In file(file, "rt") : unsupported URL scheme
>
> # I can access both through a hyperlink in OOO Calc. t
> #  Thanks
>
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