Importing data into R (rdata) from Github

Question

I want to put some R code plus the associated data file (RData) on Github.

So far, everything works okay. But when people clone the repository, I want them to be

Answer 1

load takes a filename.

x <- RCurl::getURL("https://github.com/thefactmachine/hex-binning-gis-data/raw/master/popDensity.RData")
writeLines(x, tmp <- tempfile())
y <- load(tmp)