Feature request: read online data

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
julia, r
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by examining the existing load entry point and how it handles local RData files. Use the provided .rda URL as the example input and determine what is needed for load("https://...") to read it; done means the online file can be loaded successfully.

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Description

For example

sp5h = load("https://gitlab.math.ethz.ch/maechler/CLA/-/raw/master/data/muS.sp500.rda")
Dominant language
Julia
Stars
63
Forks
17
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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First steps

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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