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Issue Unzipping NYC OpenData Download File in R
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#Initiate Download of file, naming it as test.zip | |
download.file(url='https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/geospatial/tqmj-j8zm?method=export&format=Original', destfile="test.zip") | |
#unzip the file using built in functionality | |
unzip('test.zip') | |
#Throws error when running on Windows: | |
#Warning message: | |
#In unzip("test.zip") : error 1 in extracting from zip file | |
#Note - this type of procedure works fine using wget in Ubuntu bash, as shown below | |
download.file(url='https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/geospatial/tqmj-j8zm?method=export&format=Original', destfile="test.zip", method="wget") | |
unzip('test.zip') | |
##Just bash on its own... | |
#wget 'https://data.cityofnewyork.us/api/geospatial/rjaj-zgq7?method=export&format=Original' -O test.zip | |
#unzip test.zip | |
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