Re: [R] new data

Hi, Try this: final3New<-read.table(file="real_data_cecilia.txt",sep="\t") final3New1<-read.csv("real_data_cecilia_new.csv") fun2<-function(dat){         indx<- duplicated(dat)|duplicated(dat,fromLast=TRUE)            dat1<- subset(dat[indx,],dummy==1)         dat2<- dat1[order(dat1$dimension),]

Re: [R] New data source - now how do we build an R interface?

Try to download something in IE and look at the bottom of your browser where the URL is displayed or look at the Javascript in: http://data.un.org/_Scripts/SeriesActions.js and its apparent that the format is as follows: http://data.un.org/Handlers/DownloadHandler.ashx?DataFilter=srID:1000&dataMar

[R] New data source - now how do we build an R interface?

Folks, A nice new data resource has come up -- http://data.un.org/ I thought it would be wonderful to setup an R function like tseries::get.hist.quote() which would be able to pull in some or all of this data. I walked around a bit of it and I'm not able to map the resources to predictable URLs w