[R] Problem with using read.csv with web address

Peter Dalgaard p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Sat Aug 16 00:16:11 CEST 2008


Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> 2008/8/12 Aiste Aistike <aiste.aistike at gmail.com>:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have a problem with using read.csv(). I want to read a table from the ONS
>> neighborhood statistics website which has an address:
>>     
[snippage]
>  There's also bits of JavaScript and other cruft in there. I can't
> find a direct URL that gets the CSV straightaway which is what you
> need. There's session id's and so on in the URL which might be
> confusing things. I'll keep nosing around because this is a wonderful
> example of how *not* to do web design.
>
> What a mess!
>   
Classical ball-and-chain interface: User can only do it manually, one 
file at a time.

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