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Last active July 17, 2020 11:09
This function allows you to source individual R files from a GitHub repository. Author: Tony Breyal, with contributions from Kay Cichini. Source: http://tonybreyal.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/source_https-sourcing-an-r-script-from-github/
source_https <- function(url, ...) {
## Function for sourcing individual R scripts from GitHub
## Author: Tony Breyal
## Contributions: Kay Cichini
## Original URL: http://tonybreyal.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/source_https-sourcing-an-r-script-from-github/
## Load required package
require(RCurl)
## Parse and evaluate each .R script
sapply(c(url, ...), function(u) {
eval(parse(text = getURL(u, followlocation = TRUE,