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This function allows you to source individual R files from a GitHub repository. Author: Tony Breyal, with contributions from Kay Cichini. Source: http://tonybreyal.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/source_https-sourcing-an-r-script-from-github/
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| source_https <- function(url, ...) { | |
| ## Function for sourcing individual R scripts from GitHub | |
| ## Author: Tony Breyal | |
| ## Contributions: Kay Cichini | |
| ## Original URL: http://tonybreyal.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/source_https-sourcing-an-r-script-from-github/ | |
| ## Load required package | |
| require(RCurl) | |
| ## Parse and evaluate each .R script | |
| sapply(c(url, ...), function(u) { | |
| eval(parse(text = getURL(u, followlocation = TRUE, | |
| cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", "cacert.pem", | |
| package = "RCurl"))), | |
| envir = .GlobalEnv) | |
| }) | |
| } |
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I get the following error when trying to use this:
Error in parse(text = getURL(u, followlocation = TRUE, cainfo = system.file("CurlSSL", :
:1:1: unexpected '<'
1: <
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