Download text file into library r studio

New replies are no longer allowed. Soulhog April 10, , pm 1. Thanks, Erik. Soulhog April 10, , pm 2. Wow, that copy and paste went horribly wrong Hi Erik! Learn more. Importing a text file into R Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 10 months ago. Active 7 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 27k times. I tried: read. Improve this question. Ragy Isaac Ragy Isaac 1, 1 1 gold badge 15 15 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges. Is the example the content of a single or of two files? If you use the R code above in RStudio, you will be asked to choose a file.

If your data contains column with text, R may assume that columns as a factors or grouping variables e. In this case, the data frame columns corresponding to string in your text file will be character. Preleminary tasks R base functions for importing data Reading a local file Reading a file from internet Summary Related articles Infos. Preleminary tasks Launch RStudio as described here: Running RStudio and setting up your working directory Prepare your data as described here: Best practices for preparing your data.

New replies are no longer allowed. Reading a. Support for method "libcurl" is optional on Windows: use capabilities "libcurl" to see if it is supported on your build. There is support for simultaneous downloads, so url and destfile can be character vectors of the same length greater than one but the method has to be specified explicitly and not via "auto".

For methods "wget" and "curl" a system call is made to the tool given by method , and the respective program must be installed on your system and be in the search path for executables. They will block all other activity on the R process until they complete: this may make a GUI unresponsive. It is used by available.

The "wininet" method supports some redirections but not all. For method "libcurl" , messages will quote the endpoint of redirections. Most methods do not percent-encode special characters such as spaces in URLs see URLencode , but it seems the "wininet" method does. The remaining details apply to the "internal" , "wininet" and "libcurl" methods only.