[R] how to just download file on disk by the link

[Gabor Grothendieck]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Philipp Chapkovski <chapkovski at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry for stupid question but is there any way to just download file (excel
> file) from the url to the disk with a certain name?
> Now it seems that I should open it (via read.xls) and then write it by
> write.xls. But I am pretty sure it should be something much easier?
>

read.xls in the gdata package can take the url of an Excel file and
will read it into R.  (It transparently downloads it into a temporary
file and then reads it from there.)

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