On 14 January 2013 18:56, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On 14/01/2013 16:26, Suzen, Mehmet wrote: >> >> Similar issue with URLs: > > > Not a similar issue at all: a URL is not a file. That most functions in R > itself open connections including URLs does not mean that contributed > packages do. The package help is quite specific about its requirements. > > source: Either name of the file to read from or a raw vector > representing the JPEG file content. > > Which suggests to you how you can do this, apart from download.file, of > course. Something like > > readJPEG(readBin(yesWeCan, "raw", 1e6)) >
Dear Prof. Ripley, Thank you for the correction. I was thinking in the lines of 'Everything is a file' concept. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything_is_a_file). Best, -m ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
