[R-sig-Geo] getData returns status 403

[Loïc Dutrieux]

Thanks for figuring it out Barry. I informed Robert about it.

Cheers,
Loïc

On 30/01/2017 08:19, Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Loïc Dutrieux
> <loic.dutrieux at conabio.gob.mx> wrote:
>> world <- getData(name = 'countries')
> 
> The world countries file download function has a hardcoded version in it:
> 
>> raster:::.countries
> function (download, path, ...)
> {
>     filename <- paste(path, "countries.RData", sep = "")
>     if (!file.exists(filename)) {
>         if (download) {
>             theurl <-
> paste("http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2.6/countries_gadm26.rds",
>                 sep = "")
> 
> 
>  and everything else is _gadm28 now. The getData function pastes the
> version number "28" into URLS for individual country data.
> 
> Suggest you download
> http://biogeo.ucdavis.edu/data/gadm2.8/countries_gadm28.rds manually
> for now and ping Robert Hijmans with a bug report....
> 
> Barry
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