Bad URL, colon is first character

[mbannert]

I got the latest elasticsearch, just downloaded the R package from github via devtools.
Unfortunately running

library(elastic)
shakespeare <- system.file("examples", "shakespeare_data_.json", package = "elastic")
docs_bulk(shakespeare)

leads to :
Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : Bad URL, colon is first character

I use curl 7.54.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin17.0) on OSX High Sierra.

Session Info

R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS High Sierra 10.13.4

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

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

other attached packages:
[1] elastic_0.8.4.9410

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] httr_1.3.1     compiler_3.5.1 R6_2.2.2       tools_3.5.1    curl_3.2      
[6] yaml_2.1.19    jsonlite_1.5  

[sckott]

did you run connect() first?

[mbannert]

@sckott thanks
Even though not reading the readme file til the end was obviously my bad, I'd suggest to move up the initialize part. Given that you manually start elasticsearch, it's not that obvious that you have to initialize things from R. In other words: the Shakespeare example is not reproducible in its current form.

[sckott]

good point, fixed now