[R] Download data

[Pascal Oettli]

Hi,

The combination "read.table" (and its arguments) + "stdin" also can be 
used, directly in R.

 > read.table(stdin(), ...)

Regards,
Pascal

On 29/05/2013 21:35, Jim Lemon wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 02:02 AM, jcrosbie wrote:
>> Hi, I'm trying to download data from:
>> http://www.ngx.com/settlehistory.html
>>
>> Is it possible to fetch the data with R?
>>
> Hi jcrosbie,
> The simplest way seems to be to highlight the desired spreadsheet (less
> the title row), copy (Ctrl-C) and paste (Ctrl-V) it into a text editor
> and save it (e.g. ss1.tab). This produces a TAB delimited file that can
> be read into a data frame in R with:
>
> ss1<-read.table("ss1.tab")
>
> Jim
>
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