Re: [R] opening a file from within a zipfile that is online

2007-06-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
'description' has to be a filepath of a zip file. You will have to download it first. On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > > Reading the help for ?unz I was wondering if I can read data into R from > within > an zipfile that is on some website, like maybe: > > dtaa = > read.tabl

[R] opening a file from within a zipfile that is online

2007-06-06 Thread toby909
Hi Reading the help for ?unz I was wondering if I can read data into R from within an zipfile that is on some website, like maybe: dtaa = read.table(unz("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/alsm/alsm.zip","Ch01pr19.dat";)) Thanks for letting me know if you came acros such a thing before. To