Using R to download zipped data file, extract, and import data

Question

@EZGraphs on Twitter writes: \"Lots of online csvs are zipped. Is there a way to download, unzip the archive, and load the data to a data.frame using R? #Rstats\"

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Answer 1

Just for the record, I tried translating Dirk's answer into code :-P

temp <- tempfile()
download.file("http://www.newcl.org/data/zipfiles/a1.zip",temp)
con <- unz(temp, "a1.dat")
data <- matrix(scan(con),ncol=4,byrow=TRUE)
unlink(temp)