[R] Retrieving data from survey in R Studio

[Ulrik Stervbo]

Thanks for clarifying

Bob Rudis <bob at rud.is> schrieb am Do., 18. Aug. 2016 19:41:

> Ulrik: you can absolutely read from a URL in read.csv() with that syntax.
>
> The error `## Error in attach(survey): object 'survey' not found`
> suggests that the OP mis-typed something in the `survey` name in the
> assignment from `read.csv()`.
>
> However, the OP has quite a bit more to be concerned about than the
> missing variable in the environment if their stats program is encouraging
> both no spaces between operators and the use of `attach()`.
>
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 1:26 PM, Ulrik Stervbo <ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't think you can read files into R like that. This answer
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3236651/read-data-from-internet on
>> Stack
>> Overflow tells you, you could use the RCurl package.
>>
>> Here are more examples on getting data from online sources
>> https://www.r-bloggers.com/getting-data-from-an-online-source/
>>
>> You could also just download the file manually and open it using read.scv
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Ulrik
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 at 19:10 Barathan Roy Pinas <
>> bpin3104 at uni.sydney.edu.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> > I have been given a .csv file and it is not loading. This is what I did.
>> >
>> >
>> > survey=read.csv("
>> > http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/survey.csv")
>> > attach(survey)
>> > pulse.sf=pulse[smoke==1 & sex==2]
>> > pulse.sf
>> >
>> > Template link here<
>> http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/p4.Rnw
>> > >.
>> >
>> > I insert the file into the R commands section for question 1. Doing that
>> > produces the following below:
>> >
>> >
>> > survey <- read.csv(file="
>> > http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/UG/IM/STAT2012/r/survey.csv")
>> > attach(survey)
>> >
>> > ## Error in attach(survey): object 'survey' not found
>> > pulse.sf=pulse[smoke==1 & sex==2]
>> > ## Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'pulse' not found
>> > pulse.sf
>> > ## Error in eval(expr, envir, enclos): object 'pulse.sf' not
>> > found
>> >
>> > What's going on? I can actually download the survey and view it on
>> Excel.
>> >
>> > Appreciate any help that I can get.
>> >
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