[R] Download a file from url

[Suzen, Mehmet]

you can use RCurl for web connections from Duncan Lang, see its paper:
http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/RCurlJSS.pdf

getURL there will solve your problem.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 2:07 AM, veepsirtt <veepsirtt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi R,
> I installed wget and tried to download the file from this
> http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/16-11-2012-TO-16-11-2012ACCEQN.csv
> but it fails.
> How to get it using wget?
> thanks
> veepsirtt
>
>
> #Define Working Directory, where files would be saved
> setwd('G:/NIFTY')
>
> #Define start and end dates, and convert them into date format
> startDate = as.Date("2011-01-05", order="ymd")
> endDate = as.Date("2011-02-01", order="ymd")
>
> f <- tempfile()
>
>         downloadfilename=paste("ACC", "EQN", sep = "")
>         temp =""
>
>         #Generate URL
> http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/16-11-2012-TO-16-11-2012ACCEQN.csv
>
>         myURL = paste("http://nseindia.com/content/equities/scripvol/datafiles/",
> as.character(startDate, "%d-%m-%Y"), "-TO-", as.character(endDate,
> "%d-%m-%Y"), downloadfilename, ".csv", sep = "")
>
>
>   download.file(myURL, f, method='wget', extra="-U 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux)
> Gecko Firefox/5.0'")
>
>                 temp <- read.csv(f, sep = ",")
> head(temp)
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