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An R function for downloading CSV-files over SSL
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csv-ssl
read.url <- function(url, ...){
temporaryFile <- tempfile()
download.file(url, destfile = temporaryFile, method = "curl")
url.data <- read.csv(temporaryFile, ...)
return(url.data)
}
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