[R-SIG-Mac] download R 3.2.1 on mac OS

[David Winsemius]

> On Aug 25, 2016, at 8:03 PM, Valentina Blohm Crenovich <vblohm at fen.uchile.cl> wrote:
> 
> thanks, it helps a lot but I get the following instead of downloading:
> 
> 100  9443  100  9443    0     0  26789      0 --:--:-- --:--:--
> --:--:-- 46517     0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
>> 

> , also I tried
> 
>> fileUrl<- "https://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD"
>> download.file(fileUrl, destfile="cameras.csv", method="curl")

That's not an error message.

It's actually telling you that you got 9443 bytes. If the first number were 0, then you would be concerned (and you would have seen some sort of error message).

-- 
David.

> 
> and the output is:
> 
> 100  9443  100  9443    0     0   7196      0  0:00:01  0:00:01
> --:--:-- 65576      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:--     0
> Valentina Blohm
> 
> Estudiante de Economía
> Facultad de Economía y Negocios
> Universidad de Chile
> 
> 
> 2016-08-25 22:42 GMT-04:00 David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net>:
>> 
>>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Valentina Blohm Crenovich <vblohm at fen.uchile.cl> wrote:
>>> 
>>> *Hello!*
>>> 
>>> *I have the following error system Mac OS 10.6.8 R 3.2.1 :*
>>> 
>>> 
>>> *>fileUrl<-
>>> "https:data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD
>>> <http://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD>"*
>> 
>> I'm not sure this is really a mac question but since there is a mac issue with downloading that I have solved with package::download I offer this suggestion. Need to know your working or target directory name (or create it with path.expand) since download.file does not do path expansion.
>> 
>> 
>> Also note that your url is either malformed or at the very least confusing. Cannot tell if it is https: or http:. Should just be:
>> 
>> 
>> fileUrl <-
>> "http://data.baltimorecity.gov/api/views/dz54-2aru/rows.csv?accessType=DOWNLOAD"
>> 
>> # Then with downloader installed and assuming that a ./data/ subdirectory exists:
>> 
>> library(downloader)
>> download( fileUrl, destfile=path.expand("./data/cameras.csv")
>> 
>> Note that it would be more typical on a Mac to see "~/" than "./" or to see a setwd("./data") call.
>> 
>> --
>> David.
>> 
>>> 
>>> *> download.file(fileUrl, destfile="./data/cameras.csv",method="curl")*
>>> 
>>> *curl: (6) Warning message:*
>>> *In download.file(fileUrl, destfile = "./data/cameras.csv", method =
>>> "curl") :*
>>> *  download had nonzero exit status*
>>> *Couldn't resolve host 'https:data.baltimorecity.gov
>>> <http://data.baltimorecity.gov>'*
>>> 
>>> Thank you
>>> Tina
>>> 
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>> 
>> David Winsemius
>> Alameda, CA, USA
>> 

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA