Problem with use of gutenberg_download function

[joelcourtheyn]

I'm receiving following error message when trying to download. Can someone give advice ?

library(gutenbergr)
wuthering_heights <- gutenberg_download(768)
Determining mirror for Project Gutenberg from http://www.gutenberg.org/robot/harvest
Using mirror http://www.gutenberg.lib.md.us
Warning messages:
1: In .f(.x[[i]], ...) :
Could not download a book at http://www.gutenberg.lib.md.us/7/6/768/768.zip
2: Unknown column 'text'
3: In is.na(text) : is.na() applied to non-(list or vector) of type 'NULL'

[crogger62]

Me too. I wonder if the host is down?

[frnz347]

I have a the same problem :(

[dgrtwo]

Unfortunately this Project Gutenberg mirror appears to be down today (e.g. see here).

The good news is that you can get around it by choosing another mirror from this page and giving it as the mirror argument. For example, please try:

wuthering_heights <- gutenberg_download(768, mirror = "http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg/")

I'll try the original mirror again tomorrow, and if the problem continues I'll try contacting Project Gutenberg. (If that doesn't work I'll try to make an easier way to set backup mirrors in the software).

[frnz347]

@dgrtwo thanks, it worked for me

[joelcourtheyn]

@dgrtwo Thanks for your quick reply, it worked !
I was already guessing that there was something wrong with my computer connexion at the server part.
Congratulations to you and your colleague Julia Silge with your new book : Text Mining in R !
I discovered quite a lot of new things to me s.a. the very interesting gutenbergr package,

[dgrtwo]

FYI, I've committed a change to dev (26f0639) that fixes this. Planning to submit to CRAN shortly.

I've emailed Project Gutenberg twice and they haven't replied.

[dgrtwo]

I haven't yet submitted to CRAN but Project Gutenberg was quite helpful and changed the default mirror on the site. This should now work (including in the CRAN version)!

[vs6f8]

This is still not working. I am getting the same error.

[crogger62]

Both of these worked for me:
wuthering_heights <- gutenberg_download(768, mirror = "http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg/")
and
wuthering_heights <- gutenberg_download(768, mirror = "http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg/")

What error are you getting?

[vs6f8]

Hi, I tried it again and am getting the same error, the error is as follows

[crogger62]

What happens if you navigate to the URL in the red text: "http://mirrors.xmission.com/gutenberg//7/6/768/768.zip" ? You should end up downloading 768.zip which is text for wuthering heights.

Your second warning "Unknown or uninitialised column: 'text'." seems to be a problem with getting the data into the data frame (tbl_df). One of the columns is called 'text' and it looks like there is a problem getting it there.

I'd suggest making sure your packages are up to date. Make sure you're loading dplyr
library(dplyr)
too.

[ccpsilva]

I have the same problem presented by (vs6f8 commented on 29 Mar), I have tried several repositories and still have the same error. Someone who had the same problem and managed to solve it could give me a hand.

[lejarx]

Thought this would still be useful, the default aleph mirror doesn't work.

Available mirrors are at
https://www.gutenberg.org/MIRRORS.ALL

I'm using ''http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/'', it works.