R help - Sep 2008 - Can R load a saved workspace from the Internet?

Dear All,

Can load() load a saved workspace from an Internet address? I have
tried it but I am getting errors:

In addition: Warning message:
In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) :
  cannot open compressed file 'http://XXXXX/workspace.RData', probable
reason 'No such file or directory'

Paul

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Can load() load a saved workspace from an Internet address? I have
> tried it but I am getting errors:
>
> In addition: Warning message:
> In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) :
>   cannot open compressed file 'http://XXXXX/workspace.RData',
probable
> reason 'No such file or directory'
>
>   
Yes, but you need to open an url connection explicitly (I have forgotten 
why this is so).

load(url("http://XXXXX/workspace.RData"))

or even better, follow the last example in ?load.

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