[R] Retrieving data from survey in R Studio

[Clint Bowman]

After:

survey <- 
read.csv(file="http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/survey.csv")

do:

summary(survey)

then bone up on "attach" and "with".

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2016, Ulrik Stervbo wrote:

> I don't think you can read files into R like that. This answer
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3236651/read-data-from-internet on Stack
> Overflow tells you, you could use the RCurl package.
>
> Here are more examples on getting data from online sources
> https://www.r-bloggers.com/getting-data-from-an-online-source/
>
> You could also just download the file manually and open it using read.scv
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ulrik
>
> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 at 19:10 Barathan Roy Pinas <bpin3104 at uni.sydney.edu.au>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have been given a .csv file and it is not loading. This is what I did.
>>
>>
>> survey=read.csv("
>> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/survey.csv")
>> attach(survey)
>> pulse.sf=pulse[smoke==1 & sex==2]
>> pulse.sf
>>
>> Template link here<http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/p4.Rnw
>>> .
>>
>> I insert the file into the R commands section for question 1. Doing that
>> produces the following below:
>>
>>
>> survey <- read.csv(file="
>> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/survey.csv")
>> attach(survey)
>>
>> ## Error in attach(survey): object 'survey' not found
>> pulse.sf=pulse[smoke==1 & sex==2]
>> ## Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'pulse' not found
>> pulse.sf
>> ## Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'pulse.sf' not
>> found
>>
>> What's going on? I can actually download the survey and view it on Excel.
>>
>> Appreciate any help that I can get.
>>
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