[R] Load a program from internet

[Peter Dalgaard]

"David Hajage" <dhajage at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> I know how to load a program from my computer with the command "source".
> 
> example :
> source("home/david/prog.r")
> 
> But is it possible to load a program from the internet ?
> 
> example :
> source("http://davidblog/prog.r")

Yes....

(

e.g., Bioconductor uses this mechanism, see
http://www.bioconductor.org/docs/install-howto.html, and - not to put
too fine a point on it: Did you consider reading the part of ?source
that says 

file: a connection or a character string giving the pathname of the
          file or URL to read from.

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