[R] Loading .RData from Internet

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 12/06/2010 10:29 AM, zhiji19 wrote:
> 
> I tried the load() already. It does not work. The erro is shown as following:

load() works - I downloaded the data and then used load() - it works.

I don't know if load() accepts an URL as a source, because that gave me
IMMEDIATELY an error.

Cheers,

Rainer

> 
> Error in readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) : cannot open the connection
> In addition: Warning message:
> In readChar(con, 5L, useBytes = TRUE) :
>   cannot open compressed file
> 'http://rss.acs.unt.edu/Rdoc/library/twang/data/raceprofiling.RData',
> probable reason 'Invalid argument'
> 


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