Sourcing R script over HTTPS

Question

Is there some way to source an R script from the web?

e.g. source(\'http://github.com/project/R/file.r\')

Reason: I currently have a project tha

Answer 1

The methods here were giving me the following error from github:

OpenSSL: error:14077458:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:reason(1112)

I used the following function to resolve it:

github.download = function(url) {
  fname <- tempfile()
  system(sprintf("curl -3 %s > %s", url, fname))                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
  return(fname)
}
source(github.download('http://github.com/project/R/file.r'))

Hope that helps!