Read gzipped csv directly from a url in R

Question

I\'m looking to download a gzipped csv and load it as an R object without saving it first to disk. I can do this with zipped files but can\'t seem to get it to work with

Answer 1

Using data.table::fread :

x <- data.table::fread("http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/articlefeedback/aa_combined-20110321.csv.gz")

dim(x)
[1] 1490   19

x[, 1:2]
#       aa_page_id page_namespace
#    1:   26224556              0
#    2:      31653              0
#    3:   26224556              0
#    4:   26224556              0
#    5:    1058990              0
#   ---                          
# 1486:     619464              0
# 1487:   19283361              0
# 1488:   19006979              0
# 1489:    5078775              0
# 1490:   30209619              0