[R] Loading .RData from Internet

[Ivan Calandra]

You can create a connection to the URL and load() the connection.
Like this:
con <- 
url('http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData')
load(file=con)
close(con)
str(raceprofiling)

But the easiest way is to save the file and then load it.

Ivan

Le 12/6/2010 10:44, Rainer M Krug a écrit :
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> On 12/06/2010 10:29 AM, zhiji19 wrote:
>> I tried the load() already. It does not work. The erro is shown as following:
> load() works - I downloaded the data and then used load() - it works.
>
> I don't know if load() accepts an URL as a source, because that gave me
> IMMEDIATELY an error.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
>> Error in readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open the connection
>> In addition: Warning message:
>> In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) :
>>    cannot open compressed file
>> 'http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData',
>> probable reason 'Invalid argument'
>>
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