Reading a text file from the web

Wow, you've learned a lot of ways to import a data file from the web in the previous exercises. Let's see if you can remember what's possible and what's not.

Which way of importing data is NOT possible?

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Importing a .csv file residing on the web using the URL with read.csv():

read.csv("http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/course_1478/datasets/swimming_pools.csv")

Downloading a remote excel and saving it to your working directory using download.file():

download.file("http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/course_1478/datasets/latitude.xlsx", "lat.xlsx")

Importing a .txt file residing on the web using the URL with read_tsv():

read_tsv("http://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/course_1478/datasets/potatoes.txt")

Using the load() function to load a remote RData file into the workspace with only the URL string:

load("https://s3.amazonaws.com/assets.datacamp.com/production/course_1478/datasets/wine.RData")

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Reading a text file from the web

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