read.csvdata: Read CSV from local directory or Internet

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Description

It is lazy, i.e. it does not read the csv in until requested. It does read in the metadata, though. If according to the dataset meta data an update is due, an update process is performed.

Usage

read.csvdata(resource, location = NULL, name = resource,
  update.fct = function(csv) return(data.frame()), verbose = TRUE,
  clss = "CsvData")

Arguments

resource	the name of the resource. Required.
location	either a Location object, or a character pointing to a local directory or an url. See details.
name	the physical name of the resource. Defaults to resource.
update.fct	function for updating the data. the update method and update interval is specified as meta data. Default is a function that returns an empty data.frame.
verbose	Print diagnostic messages, default is TRUE.
clss	class to construct. Defaults to CsvData.

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