[R] load( ) and URLs

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

I am having difficulty loading a file over the web that was created with save(..., compress=TRUE):

> load('http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/data/sav/boston.sav')
Error in gzfile(file, "rb") : unable to open connection
In addition: Warning message:
cannot open compressed file `http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat/s/data/sav/boston.sav'

I'm running on

platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
arch     i686
os       linux-gnu
system   i686, linux-gnu
status
major    1
minor    6.1
year     2002
month    11
day      01
language R

Any pointers appreciated.  -Frank
-- 
Frank E Harrell Jr              Prof. of Biostatistics & Statistics
Div. of Biostatistics & Epidem. Dept. of Health Evaluation Sciences
U. Virginia School of Medicine  http://hesweb1.med.virginia.edu/biostat
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