Download zipped text file using r

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This post may help you: stackoverflow. Yes i did my due diligence and searched before i asked this question, slightly different from that question is i am trying to read in from my local filesystem and not through a url. What version of R are you using? It may be worth trying the latest stable release from the project, not from a distribution, which can be behind.

I have seen this error occur in older releases but not the latest one, when running identical commands using unz in both. Did you ever solve this problem? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Is there a way to find the filenames inside the "Sales. AllenWang yes but one has to use function unzip instead: unzip "Sales. Any idea how I can fix this? For me it works as expected. Maybe you should open a new question with your specific problem?

The first step is to actually get the data. CNRFC trace data is available as. To download this file in R, we first have to create a placeholder file.

The data has now been downloaded to a temporary file, and the full path is contained in tf. The remaining details apply to the "internal" , "wininet" and "libcurl" methods only. The timeout for many parts of the transfer can be set by the option timeout which defaults to 60 seconds.

The level of detail provided during transfer can be set by the quiet argument and the internet. For the "internal" method setting option internet. Using 2 the default gives only serious messages, and 3 or more suppresses all messages.

For the "libcurl" method values of the option less than 2 give verbose output. If the file length is known, the full width of the bar is the known length. Otherwise the initial width represents Kbytes and is doubled whenever the current width is exceeded. In non-interactive use this uses a text version. On Windows, if mode is not supplied missing and url ends in one of.

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