read.testURLs: Read a file produced by testURLs
In Ecfun: Functions for Ecdat

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***NOTE: THIS IS A PRELIMINARY VERSION OF THIS FUNCTION; ***NOTE: IT MAY BE CHANGED OR REMOVED IN A FUTURE RELEASE.

read.table(file.) and return the result as an object of class c('testURLs', 'data.frame').

1	read.testURLs(file.='testURLresults.csv', ...)

`file.`	Name of a CSV file to read
`...`	optional arguments for `read.csv`.

dat <- read.csv(file., ...)

class(dat) <- c('testURLsFile', 'data.frame')

a data.frame from the file written by testURLs, of the same format as the testResults attribute of the testURLs object returned by testURLs.

Spencer Graves

read.csv

# Test only 2 web sites, not the default 4,
# and test only twice, not the default 10 times:
tst <- testURLs(c(
 PVI="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index",
 house="http://house.gov/representatives"),
    n=2, maxFail=2)

# The above should have created a file 'testURLresults.csv'
# in the working directory.  Read it.

dat <- read.testURLs()