Load example data

data_load.R

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# 20/01/2013
# Author: Alastair V Harry - alastair.harry@gmail.com
# Centre For Sustainable Tropical Fisheries & Aquaculture
# James Cook University, Townsville
# 
# From Harry et al (2013) Age, growth, and reproductive biology of the spot-tail
# shark, Carcharhinus sorrah, and the Australian blacktip shark, C. tilstoni, 
# from the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, north-eastern Australia. 
# Marine and Freshwater Research
#
# Loads data for the spot-tail shark from the paper above 
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library(RCurl)

# Load data from github
url <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alharry/spot-tail/master/SSS.csv"
data <- getURL(url)                

# If this step doesnt work use this, but read this first
# http://ademar.name/blog/2006/04/curl-ssl-certificate-problem-v.html
#data <- getURL(url,ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)

data <- read.csv(textConnection(data))