I am trying to download an excel zip file into a R Project folder that I have started. I'm new to R so I'm a little puzzled at the error message that I'm receiving.
The file is an excel file and so first I created a variable for the file:
excel2file="http://op.nsf.data/dataFiles/Housing2013EXCEL.zip"
Then I used the coding:
download.file(excel2file, destfile= "~/Home/Documents/Data")
I receive this error message:
Error in download.file(excel2file, destfile = "~/Home/Documents/Data") :
cannot open destfile '~/Home/Documents/Data', reason 'Permission denied'
I tried looking at other examples of permission denied and I think it may be my destination file but I am not sure why or the steps to trouble shoot it.
destfile should be a filename, not a directory. For example:
download.file(excel2file, destfile= "~/Home/Documents/Data/Housing2013EXCEL.zip")
Also, that URL doesn't seem to be valid, but that's a different (non-R) problem.
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