[R] Retrieving data from survey in R Studio

Ulrik Stervbo ulrik.stervbo at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 19:26:05 CEST 2016


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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