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Resolved error while uploading file

I am trying to download an excel zip file to the R project folder that I started. I am new to R, so I am a bit puzzled by the error message I receive.

The file is an excel file, so first I created a variable for the file:

excel2file="http://op.nsf.data/dataFiles/Housing2013EXCEL.zip"

Then I used the encoding:

download.file(excel2file, destfile= "~/Home/Documents/Data")

I get this error message:

Error in download.file(excel2file, destfile = "~/Home/Documents/Data") : 
  cannot open destfile '~/Home/Documents/Data', reason 'Permission denied'

I tried looking at other examples of access denied and I think it might be my destination file, but I'm not sure why or the steps to fix it.

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destfile

should be a file name, not a directory. For example:

download.file(excel2file, destfile= "~/Home/Documents/Data/Housing2013EXCEL.zip")


Also, this url seems to be invalid, but that's a different (non-R) problem.

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