Hi Fabio

Can you please reproduce your output? When I tried it curl are the
following issues I get:

>download.file("
http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip",
temp, method="curl")
Error in download.file("
http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip",
 :
  object 'temp' not found

Then I changed the destination file and checked again:
download.file("
http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip",
"c:/", method="curl")
Warning message:
In download.file("
http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip",
 :
  download had nonzero exit status

I was still unable to get that.

Thx
Balaji



On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Fábio Magalhães <fmagalhaes@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I was able to download it specifying the method as "curl", like this:
>
> > download.file("
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip",
> temp, method="curl")
> #! Fábio
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Electron Musketeer
> <musketeere@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Many thanks Ista. I will try other routes as well.
> > Thanks Jeff and sorry for posting without abiding by the rules.
> > Thanks James. I would rather automate this than download manually
> > everytime. That is my intent.
> >
> > Best
> > Balaji
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Not an R question, but see
> >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cliget/ for an easy way
> >> to see what what is going on under the hood when you download using
> >> firefox. For your example I get
> >>
> >> wget --header='Host: www.nseindia.com' --header='User-Agent:
> >> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0'
> >> --header='Accept:
> >> text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8'
> >> --header='Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5' --header='Connection:
> >> keep-alive' '
> >>
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip
> >> '
> >> -O 'fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip' -c
> >>
> >> Now you just need to translate that to R. (Or not, sometimes its
> >> easier to just shell out (using e.g., 'system()' ) and download with
> >> wget or curl).
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Ista
> >>
> >> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Electron Musketeer
> >> <musketeere@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Dear Experts
> >> >
> >> > I am new to this forum and to R and was trying the following to
> access a
> >> > zip file from  the webpages of the NSE. Here is my code.
> >> >
> >> > temp <- tempfile()
> >> > download.file("
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip
> >> > ",temp)
> >> > con <- unz(temp, "a1.dat")
> >> > data <- matrix(scan(con),ncol=4,byrow=TRUE)
> >> > unlink(temp)
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > The result is:
> >> > cannot open URL '
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip
> >> > '
> >> > In addition: Warning message:
> >> > In download.file("
> >> >
> >>
> http://www.nseindia.com/content/historical/DERIVATIVES/2014/JUL/fo09JUL2014bhav.csv.zip
> >> ",
> >> >  :
> >> >   cannot open: HTTP status was '403 Forbidden'
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > I tried accessing this file directly from the website and it is
> letting
> >> me
> >> > access it. My question is why is it not letting me download from R? I
> >> have
> >> > gone through some websites to see if this has been resolved but the
> older
> >> > resolutions also do not work. Can someone help please?
> >> >
> >> > Thx
> >> > Balaji
> >> >
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