[R] Internet connection

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Fri Apr 5 17:45:43 CEST 2013


On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Gary <gwengstrom at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Tried several ways to connect to Internet. Perhaps R help could point me in the right direction to make this connection work.
>
> setInternet2(use = TRUE)
>> download.file("
> + http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/322090/322090,1307359665,10/stock-photo-car-silhouette-for-race-sports-design-vector-version-also-available-in-gallery-78667174.jpg
> + ",
> +              destfile=file.path("..", "Desktop/racing_car.jpg"), mode="wb")
> Error in download.file("\nhttp://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/322090/322090,1307359665,10/stock-photo-car-silhouette-for-race-sports-design-vector-version-also-available-in-gallery-78667174.jpg\n",  :

Off the cuff, it seems that the newline breaks around the link but
inside the quote marks are your problem. See the "\n" at the front and
back of the URL -- shouldn't be there.

MW

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