'description' has to be a filepath of a zip file. You will have to
download it first.
On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
>
> Reading the help for ?unz I was wondering if I can read data into R from
> within
> an zipfile that is on some website, like maybe:
>
> dtaa =
> read.table(unz("http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/examples/alsm/alsm.zip","Ch01pr19.dat";))
>
> Thanks for letting me know if you came acros such a thing before.
>
> Toby
>
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