readGitHub: Read raw data files that are uploaded on GitHub
In MorphoFun/psa: Phenotypic Selection Analysis tools

Description Usage Arguments Details See Also Examples

readGitHub allows one to read raw data from GitHub repositories

1	readGitHub(url, header = TRUE, fill = TRUE, stringAsFactors = FALSE, ...)

`url`	Character string containing the HTML url for the raw data. Supports the same file formats as `read.table`.
`header`	Logical. Indicate whether header lines should be included. Default is `TRUE`.
`fill`	Logical. Indicate whether blank fields in rows should be filled with "NA" values to insure that rows have equal length. Default is `TRUE`.
`stringsAsFactors.`	Logical. Indicate whether character vectors should be automatically converted to factors. Default is `FALSE`.
`...`	Further arguments that can be passed to the read.table family

See documentation under ?read.table for specific information regarding data import.

read.table, connections

# Load the Bumpus.csv data file from GitHub
FlowersData <- readGitHub("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MorphoFun/psa/master/dataraw/Baranzelli_etal_Flowers.csv", sep = ",")

# Review the first 6 rows
head(FlowersData)