[R] open script from web

[Jeff Newmiller]

In almost all cases the answer is No.

Some Web servers support WebDAV, but standard HTTP does not work that way. Has nothing to do with R.
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On February 1, 2016 9:16:59 PM PST, Benn Fine <bennfine at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hello
>
>In R, is it possible to load a script file into the editor via a web
>address?
>
>That is, I have a script file I want people to grab located at
>http://www.foo.com/bar.R
>and want to do something like file.edit("http://www.foo.com/bar.R").
>But
>that doesn't seem to work.
>
>thanks
>
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