Chapter 4 - Wrong URL to download data

[emsing]

In the online version of the book, I was unable to download the NEISS data using the code from the book. The URL: https://github.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/raw/master/neiss/

gave a 404 message.

I found this URL to work https://github.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/raw/main/neiss/

[robertberryuk]

Awesome, thanks - this was driving me mad

[rmflight]

What's weird, is that the source of the page shows the correct URL (using the main branch), but the rendered shows the incorrect.

I think the book just (I know that's not necessarily that simple) needs to be re-rendered and pushed up.

[RyanGerardHoward]

Thanks emsing. That URL was helpful.

[ayoraind]

In my case (as stated in issue #609), I had to use

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/main/neiss/

So, the function then looks like this

download <- function(name) {
  # url <- "https://github.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/raw/master/neiss/"
  url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hadley/mastering-shiny/main/neiss/"
  download.file(paste0(url, name), paste0("neiss/", name), quiet = TRUE)
}

I commented out the url stated in the online version of the book for emphasis.