[R] open a zip file

Mon Aug 8 04:07:20 CEST 2016

If I break it into parts, I find that the "GET" fails.

>   Year <- format(Sys.Date(), "%Y")
>    Month <- format(Sys.Date(), "%m")
> junk <- paste("https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/",
+            "mbs", 
+            as.character(Month), 
+            as.character(Year),
+            ".zip", 
+            sep = "")
> junk
[1] "https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip"
> httr::GET("https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip")
Response [https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip]
  Date: 2016-08-08 02:02
  Status: 404
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
  Size: 235 B
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip was not found on this server.</p>
</body></html>

Your saved file will have the ending ".zip" no matter what, because that is what you called it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it just a txt file with the error message.

HTH,

-Roy

> On Aug 7, 2016, at 6:42 PM, Glenn Schultz <glennmschultz at me.com> wrote:
> 
> paste("https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/",
>            "mbs", 
>            as.character(Month), 
>            as.character(Year),
>            ".zip", 
>            sep = "")
> junk <- paste("https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/",
+            "mbs", 
+            as.character(Month), 
+            as.character(Year),
+            ".zip", 
+            sep = "")
> junk
[1] "https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip"
> httr::GET("https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip")
Response [https://mbsdisclosure.fanniemae.com/disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip]
  Date: 2016-08-08 02:02
  Status: 404
  Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
  Size: 235 B
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL /disclosure-docs/monthly/mbs082016.zip was not found on this server.</p>
</body></html>

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