Read a CSV from github into R

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Try this:

library(RCurl)
x <- getURL("https://raw.github.com/aronlindberg/latent_growth_classes/master/LGC_data.csv")
y <- read.csv(text = x)

You have two problems:

  1. You’re not linking to the “raw” text file, but Github’s display version (visit the URL for https:\raw.github.com….csv to see the difference between the raw version and the display version).
  2. https is a problem for R in many cases, so you need to use a package like RCurl to get around it. In some cases (not with Github, though) you can simply replace https with http and things work out, so you can always try that out first, but I find using RCurl reliable and not too much extra typing.

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