R help - Jun 2007 - opening a file from within a zipfile that is online

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.

Toby

'description' has to be a filepath of a zip file.  You will have to 
download it first.

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, toby909 at gmail.com 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.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.
>
> Toby
>
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