Package that downloads data from the internet during installation
问题 Is anyone aware of a package that downloads a dataset from the internet during the installation process and then prepares and saves it so that it is available when loading the package using library(packageName) ? Are there any drawbacks in this approach (besides the obvious one that package installation will fail if the data source is unavailable or the data format has changed)? EDIT : Some background. The data is three tab-separated files in a ZIP archive, owned by federal statistics and