download.file中的错误:不支持scheme

时间:2017-06-26 15:55:08

标签: r url plyr

我需要从“http://www.elections.state.md.us”下载一些csv文件。

这是我的代码。

url <- "http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2012/election_data/index.html"
# recognize the links
links <- getHTMLLinks(url)
filenames <- links[str_detect(links,"_General.csv")]
filenames_list <- as.list(filenames)
filenames
# create a function
downloadcsv <- function(filename,baseurl,folder){
  dir.create(folder,showWarnings = FALSE)
  fileurl <- str_c(baseurl,filename)
  if(!file.exists(str_c(folder,"/",filename))){
    download.file(fileurl,
                  destfile = str_c(folder,"/",filename))
    # 1 sec delay between files
    Sys.sleep(1)
  }
}
library(plyr)
l_ply(filenames_list,downloadcsv,
      baseurl = "www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2012/election_data/",
      folder = "elec12_maryland")

错误出现为:

  

download.file出错(fileurl,destfile = str_c(文件夹,“/”,   filename)):URL'www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2012/election_data/State_Congressional_Districts_2012_General.csv'不支持方案

但是,当我尝试将网址粘贴到IE中时,它确实有效。那么我的代码有什么问题呢?

任何想法都会有所帮助,谢谢。

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

事实证明,url必须以http://,https://,ftp://或file://等方案开头。所以在最后一行,我将代码更改为

l_ply(filenames_list,downloadcsv,
      baseurl = "http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2012/election_data/",
      folder = "elec12_maryland")

它有效。