R help - Dec 2010 - Loading .RData from Internet

Dear All,

Can you please suggest me a correct way to load the following R data frame
from the internet and save it to the hard drive?

The following is what I tried:
> raceprofiling <-
>
read.table("http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData")
> save(raceprofiling, file = 'raceprofiling.RData')
However, when I used dim() to check the dataset, I got:
> dim(raceprofiling)
[1] 11085  1

The correct dimension should be 5000 and 10.

Many Thanks.
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Try with load() instead of read.table()
read.table() is for csv, txt... files.
load() is for R files

Ivan

Le 12/6/2010 09:35, zhiji19 a ?crit :
> Dear All,
>
> Can you please suggest me a correct way to load the following R data frame
> from the internet and save it to the hard drive?
>
> The following is what I tried:
>> raceprofiling<-
>>
read.table("http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData")
>> save(raceprofiling, file = 'raceprofiling.RData')
> However, when I used dim() to check the dataset, I got:
>> dim(raceprofiling)
> [1] 11085  1
>
> The correct dimension should be 5000 and 10.
>
> Many Thanks.
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ivan.calandra at uni-hamburg.de

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