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Sharif Amlani
Sharif Amlani

Reputation: 1288

Error Unziping File: error 1 in extracting from zip file

I am trying to download and unzip a file from the internet using the following code. I have a PC running on Windows 10.

#################### Set Working Directory #################
setwd("C:/Users/Sharif/OneDrive/Data/FEC Data/Committee Information")

#################### Download File ############

download.file("https://www.fec.gov/data/browse-data/?tab=bulk-data/files/bulk-downloads/1980/indiv80.zip", destfile = "1980 - Committee Information.zip")
unzip("1980 - Committee Information.zip") ## Does not work and produces an error

For some reason, I get the following error when I run the unzip function and the file does not unzip into my working directory.

Warning message:
In unzip("1980 - Committee Information.zip") :
  error 1 in extracting from zip file

Any help you could offer would be greatly appreciated. Thank You!

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3187

Answers (1)

deepseefan
deepseefan

Reputation: 3791

This works on my machine. 

download.file("https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/1980/indiv80.zip", destfile = "1980_Committee_Information.zip")

unzip("1980_Committee_Information.zip")

For some reason, the url you are requesting is not downloading the file. Looking into the page source (View-source from your browser) reveals the actual url used by the website to serve a request.

Upvotes: 2

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