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

Tue, Sep 23, 2008 2:43 PM #

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

Peter Dalgaard

Tue, Sep 23, 2008 3:06 PM #

Paul Smith wrote:

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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Paul Smith

Tue, Sep 23, 2008 3:17 PM #

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Peter Dalgaard

<p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> wrote:

Yes, Peter, that works. Thanks!

I do not know why with read.csv and read.table url() is not needed,
but with load() is. Should not the approach be similar in both cases?

Paul