Download a file from HTTPS using download.file()

Question

I would like to read online data to R using download.file() as shown below.

URL <- \"https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fdata%2Fs         


        

Answer 1

I've succeed with the following code:

url = "http://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fdata%2Fss06hid.csv"
x = read.csv(file=url)

Note that I've changed the protocol from https to http, since the first one doesn't seem to be supported in R.