[R] download.file not working

[Gustaf Rydevik]

Hi all,

I'm trying to download a file from the net, and the download.file
command leaves it corrupted, i.e excel cannot open it. It seems as if
it's going ok, however.
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?

regards,

Gustaf Rydevik

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>download.file(url="http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls",destfile="whodem.xls")
trying URL 'http://www.who.int/entity/whosis/whostat2006_demographics.xls'
Content type 'application/vnd.ms-excel' length 77824 bytes
opened URL
downloaded 76Kb
> sessionInfo()
R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23)
i386-pc-mingw32

locale:
LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252

attached base packages:
[1] "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"     "datasets"  "methods"
[7] "base"

other attached packages:
RWinEdt
"1.7-5"
> Sys.getlocale()
[1] "LC_COLLATE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_CTYPE=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_MONETARY=Swedish_Sweden.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=Swedish_Sweden.1252"
>


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