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Message-ID: <AANLkTik6sRV1tJut8aQLpaOKeqXna=nhPL9sk4oA7SaC@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2011-01-25T03:43:55Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Downloading data from internet
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikbN12+NeKmrcp6Z8zBXPLq0wP02P2urFqv7ndO@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Megh Dal <megh700004 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, I need to download an excel file from net, on which I have address
> like http://www.2shared.com/file/MMSMWv4B/MyData.html. Can I somehow
> directly download this file into my R workbook?
>


If you have a direct URL to the file (not the URL in your post which
just points a web page) then see the gdata example on this page:

http://rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=tips:data-io:ms_windows


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