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For an historical paper I'm working on, I have some Spanish plaintext, presently in the form of a Word .doc file, http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/images/Private/Langren/Verdadera-spanish-stripped.doc and also some ciphered text from the same original source. The ultimate goal is to use some frequency analysis of letters and word lengths in the plaintext to help decode the ciphered text. For now, I'm stuck on how to read the Spanish plaintext into R as a...

...stion is how to use a URL in place of a file= argument for read.*.functions that do not support this internally. e.g., utils::read.table() and her family all support a file= argument that can take a URL equally well as a local file. So, if I have a file on the web, I can equally well do > langren <- read.csv("langrens.csv", header=TRUE) > langren <- read.csv("http://euclid.psych.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/Private/langrens.csv", header=TRUE) where the latter is more convenient for posts to this list or distributed examples. rimage::read.jpeg() doesn't suppor...