On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Olga Lyashevska<o...@herenstraat.nl> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to import data with read.csv and my file is on remote machine. > I believe that I need to open a connection, not sure about syntax though.
If it's on an HTTP server then you don't need to faff with connections, just give the URL to read.csv: > data = read.csv("http://foo.example.com/file.csv") Probably works with ftp: too. How remote is it? Barry ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.