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dreamRs / datamods

Shiny modules to import and manipulate data into an application or addin
https://dreamrs.github.io/datamods/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Import from URL #42

Closed struckma closed 2 years ago

struckma commented 2 years ago

Thank you for this great package, I thought, there should be an existing solution for such a common problem like reading in a data frame in an R GUI, and was surprised by the great options of datamods. Thank you for that. However, I have a feature request here.

Many data sets are available as e.g. CSV files from URLs in the internet. With the file widget, I can only select local files, with the Google-Widget only Google spreadsheets. Since rio::import also supports URLs in its file argument (according to its manual, version 0.5.27), it should be a low-hanging fruit to have a widget for reading files from URLs.

Therefore, I would like to put a feature request here for a new import-class for external files.

pvictor commented 2 years ago

Hello, If you re-install from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("dreamRs/datamods")

there's a new module called import_url_ui() / import_url_server() added in https://github.com/dreamRs/datamods/pull/39 that may serve your needs.

It's not yet on CRAN, but i'll try to submit soon.

Victor

struckma commented 2 years ago

Yes, indeed, that works great, sorry for the duplicate.