fread.zip.url: Other code: read zipped url

In eloualiche/entrydatar: Download and process data of firm entry from BLS, Census, etc...

Other code: read zipped url

Description

Other code: read zipped url

Usage

fread.zip.url(url, filename = NULL, FUN = fread, ...)

Arguments

url	see vignette for a list of the cut
filename	for multiple files in the archive
FUN	default to fread from data.table but you could use anything
...	arguments passed to the function call (typically fread)

Value

data.table of the remote file

Note

This code is directly copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/24586478

Examples

  ## Not run: 
  dt <- fread.zip.url(https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/files/2000/csv/2000_qtrly_singlefile.zip)
  
## End(Not run)

eloualiche/entrydatar documentation built on Aug. 20, 2023, 1:56 p.m.