[R-SIG-Mac] Download data from Internet contained in a Zip file

[Gábor Csárdi]

Your R build does not support HTTPS.

I suggest that you use the curl package if you can. HTTP support in
base R is very limited currently.

Gabor



On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 10:37 PM, Christofer Bogaso
<bogaso.christofer at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I posted this in general R thread, however it is suggested this group
> since I am using MAC OS 10.7.5.
>
> I was following the instruction available in
> "http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3053833/using-r-to-download-zipped-data-file-extract-and-import-data"
> to download data from Internet contained in a zip file from the
> address :
>
> https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip
>
> However when I tried to follow the instruction I am facing below error :
>
>> temp <- tempfile()
>> download.file("https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip",temp)
> Error in download.file("https://npscra.nsdl.co.in/download.php?path=download/&filename=NAV_File_23122016.zip",
>  :
>   unsupported URL scheme
>
> Can someone here please tell me what went wrong in above?
>
> Highly appreciate your feedback.
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
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