After updating all packages, included dplyr, I am still getting the same error:
Error: (converted from warning) package 'dplyr' was built under R version 3.6.3
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'springerQuarantineBooksR'

• removing 'C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.1/library/springerQuarantineBooksR'
  Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/n9675230/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpw3buJ7/file251c4f0151/springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Any suggestion how to proceed?

Thanks for your great work!!

I am having an issue downloading all the Springer books. I end up getting all the book files by running downloadspringerbook_files(); however, they are all 14KB.

Springer seems to have updated their list of books, therefore xlsx-file that contains the list of books is not downloaded correctly.

Changing the end of line 21 in download_springer_table.R from

books_list_url <- 'https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v4/'

to

books_list_url <- 'https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/17858272/data/v5/'

fixes the problem (i.e., replace the v4 with v5)

Does downloading work for you right now?

For me all the files are very small, the same size, and don't open at all.

Can not open (linux) directory using setwd('path')

Add also #16 (comment) in the German Books List

I'm running R 3.6.3, Mac 10.12.6.
Output file:
The downloaded binary packages are in
/var/folders/vd/td5slcr12ts4rfxgx06vvrww0000gp/T//RtmpmdFVWg/downloaded_packages
checking for file ‘/private/var/folders/vd/td5slcr12ts4rfxgx06vvrww0000gp/T/RtmpmdFVWg/remotes1c94e592bbe/renanxcortes-springerQuarantineBooksR-73b513e/DESCRIPTION’ ...

• installing source package ‘springerQuarantineBooksR’ ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  ** help
  *** installing help indices
  ** building package indices
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
  ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
  ** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
• DONE (springerQuarantineBooksR)

setwd("Zipped 2")
Error in setwd("Zipped 2") : cannot change working directory
download_springer_book_files()
Error in download_springer_book_files() :
could not find function "download_springer_book_files"

Thanks in advance for any suggestions

https://link.springer.com/search/page/3?facet-content-type=%22Book%22&package=openaccess

I have tried the package But it does not work. Then, I open the source code and change it a little. After the modification, It works fine

More explenation in this file

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kqVkQDah3CtqHT1ejafI5HLxardKa8GI1D5gjuxmoW0/edit

I tried to install this package on a brand-new PC with the latest version of R just installed. I first installed the devtools package, and then ran the following code
devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR", force=T)

It returns the error message:

Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’

It is a brand-new PC with freshly installed R. What can the problem? Thanks!

Good job with the package! By the way, when trying to run "download_springer_book_files()" I get an error. The code I run:
devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR") library(springerQuarantineBooksR) setwd('G:/.../Springer Ebooks') download_springer_book_files()

And the error:
Downloading title latest editions. Processing... Fundamentals of Power Electronics (1 out of 391) Error in http_error(get_file) : could not find function "http_error"

Is it common? Is there a way to solve it? By the way, i use R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24).

Thank you,

Pau

Commas, spaces and some other non-alphanumeric characters are problematic. Please correct the directory and file names. Thank you very much.

Thanks for creating this package and helping people with bulk downloading.

I installed, then loaded the package and then I executed download_springer_book_files(parallel = TRUE) as suggested in your README

It downloads almost 7.5 Gb of PDFs in the default folder 'springer_quarantine_books', however, trying to open some of them with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC version 2020.006.20042, I get the following errors, from case to case, e.g.:

• for './springer_quarantine_books/Computer Science/A Beginners Guide to Python 3 Programming - 1st ed. 2019.pdf':

• "There was an error processing a page. Invalid ColorSpace"
  I click OK and the PDF is blank with an gray background.

• for './springer_quarantine_books/Behavioral Science/A Clinical Guide to the Treatment of the Human Stress Response - 3rd ed. 2013.pdf':

• "Cannot extract the embedded font 'Times-Roman'. Some characters may not display or print correctly."
  I click OK then I get further:
• "A drawing error occurred.". Click OK, then:
• "An error exists on this page. Acrobat may not display the page correctly. Please contact the person who created the PDF document to correct the problem."
  In the end the PDF is blank with a white background.
  I get a similar error for './springer_quarantine_books\Business and Economics/Corporate Social Responsibility - 2013.pdf', but instead of referring to font 'Times-Roman', it mentions font IHMLIA+AdvP6975 (I presume this will vary from PDF to PDF).

When I download these books directly from Springer's link, I do not get the errors and the PDF can be read.

Any idea what might have happened?

Thanks so much for your support and help.

sessionInfo()
#> R version 3.6.2 (2019-12-12)
#> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
#> Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18362)
#> 
#> Matrix products: default
#> 
#> locale:
#> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 
#> [2] LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252   
#> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
#> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                          
#> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252    
#> 
#> attached base packages:
#> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
#> 
#> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
#>  [1] compiler_3.6.2  magrittr_1.5    tools_3.6.2     htmltools_0.4.0
#>  [5] yaml_2.2.1      Rcpp_1.0.4.6    stringi_1.4.6   rmarkdown_2.1  
#>  [9] highr_0.8       knitr_1.28      stringr_1.4.0   xfun_0.13      
#> [13] digest_0.6.25   rlang_0.4.5     evaluate_0.14

^{Created on 2020-04-26 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

How to obtain a list of all available e-books?

Great package!
I tried the function download_springer_book_files() but it seems that the same book is downloaded (the file name is correct). An issue with the URL maybe?
Package installed 1 hour ago.

Currently, the package downloads only the .pdf extensions of the books. It worth to add also the .epub versions also. Probably, some kind of filetype = 'epub' argument inside generate_springer_book_files.

Hi! First of all, thanks for the code!
I work with R 3.6.3 version and I used this lines to download the ebooks:

setwd("my path")
download_springer_book_files()

At the end of the process, it appear on the console:

Warning messages:
1: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used
2: In if (!dir.exists(current_folder)) { :
the condition has length > 1 and only the first element will be used

And I didn't get the books. What am I supposed to do?

Hello,

i'm trying to install this repo and its showing some errors

> devtools::install_github("renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR", force = T)
Downloading GitHub repo renanxcortes/springerQuarantineBooksR@master
√  checking for file 'C:\Users\Dunnlab\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp4AYpjB\remotes290446b5124b\renanxcortes-springerQuarantineBooksR-6278667/DESCRIPTION' (533ms)
-  preparing 'springerQuarantineBooksR':
√  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... 
-  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
-  checking for empty or unneeded directories
-  building 'springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz'
   
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dunnlab/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'springerQuarantineBooksR' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error: (converted from warning) package 'janitor' was built under R version 3.6.3
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'springerQuarantineBooksR'
* removing 'C:/Users/Dunnlab/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/springerQuarantineBooksR'
Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/Dunnlab/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp4AYpjB/file290433322c75/springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

below is the session info

sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18362)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] rstudioapi_0.11   magrittr_1.5      usethis_1.6.1     devtools_2.3.0    pkgload_1.0.2     R6_2.4.1         
 [7] rlang_0.4.6       fansi_0.4.1       tools_3.6.1       pkgbuild_1.0.8    sessioninfo_1.1.1 cli_2.0.2        
[13] withr_2.2.0       ellipsis_0.3.0    remotes_2.1.1     assertthat_0.2.1  digest_0.6.25     rprojroot_1.3-2  
[19] crayon_1.3.4      processx_3.4.2    callr_3.4.3       fs_1.4.1          ps_1.3.2          curl_4.3         
[25] testthat_2.3.2    memoise_1.1.0     glue_1.4.0        compiler_3.6.1    desc_1.2.0        backports_1.1.6  
[31] prettyunits_1.1.1

Using Force=T didn't help either.

Here's the full log from the console:

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Ariel Karlinsky/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'springerQuarantineBooksR' ...
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error: (converted from warning) package 'httr' was built under R version 3.6.1
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'springerQuarantineBooksR'
* removing 'C:/Users/Ariel Karlinsky/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/springerQuarantineBooksR'
Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/ARIELK~1/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpyw2fkh/file271c4d4a64e/springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

It would be great to have alos the possibility to get the German books also

Installation fails if tictoc is not present - please add to depends statement

Currently, the package downloads all book files sequentially. It is worth to check the feasibility of parallel solutions. Possible options:

• future_walk or future_map from furrr (https://github.com/DavisVaughan/furrr)
• async (https://github.com/r-lib/async)

hi, i cannot install the package. the error:

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages, but is not currently installed.

Please download and install Rtools custom from https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/.
√ checking for file 'C:\Users\javie\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiazejU\remotes3c1c50251966\renanxcortes-springerQuarantineBooksR-befa138/DESCRIPTION' ...

• preparing 'springerQuarantineBooksR':
  √ checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
• checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
• checking for empty or unneeded directories
• building 'springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz'

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/javie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

• installing source package 'springerQuarantineBooksR' ...
  ** using staged installation
  ** R
  ** inst
  ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
  Error: (convertido del aviso) package 'readxl' was built under R version 3.6.3
  Ejecución interrumpida
  ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'springerQuarantineBooksR'
• removing 'C:/Users/javie/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/springerQuarantineBooksR'
  Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/javie/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpiazejU/file3c1c205e2eb2/springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.1 (2019-07-05)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

Random number generation:
RNG: Mersenne-Twister
Normal: Inversion
Sample: Rounding

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_CTYPE=Spanish_Spain.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=Spanish_Spain.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Spanish_Spain.1252

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

other attached packages:
[1] readxl_1.3.1

If you have any suggestions,
thanks for your help!

Currnetly, the package is not pulling appropriately books with ":" on their title.

Currently, due to the fact that the package works with the book title (in order to facilitate the creation of subgroups of books by title), It fetches the latest edition of each book. In fact, that's why the number of books generated is lower than the number of lines of the .xlsx file catalog that springer made available. Perhaps, it is worth to check an alternative to download all editions of the same book.

Currently, the package assumes the file is not present in the folders. It worth checking its existence before generating the GET request.

I am using R 3.6.1 and tried to installed the new version but didn't work. So how can I use your codes for R 3.6.1.

Trying to install the package (in multiple different Windows PCs) but encounter the error message

installation of package ‘C:/Users/Tim/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpSETARB/file3ce4752013ff/springerQuarantineBooksR_0.1.0.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Allow to restart downloading titles from a certain position. I didn't fully dig into the code, but assuming that the order of the results from download_springer_table is stable, it would be sufficient to change the definition of download_springer_book_files to something like this:

download_springer_book_files <- function ([...], start = 1) {
    [...]
    for (title in springer_books_titles[start : lenght(springer_books_titles)]) {
        [...]
    }
    [...]
}

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
Error: Failed to install 'springerQuarantineBooksR' from GitHub:
(converted from warning) cannot remove prior installation of package ‘rlang’
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) :
skipping pax global extended headers
2: In untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir) :
skipping pax global extended headers