scan_https function

Read a character text file from a secure (https) site into R as a single object.

Source

Originally based on source_url from the Hadley Wickham's devtools package.

scan_https(url, sha1 = NULL)

Arguments

• url: The files's URL.
• sha1: Character string of the file's SHA-1 hash, generated by source_data. Note if you are using data stored using Git, this is not the file's commit SHA-1 hash.

Returns

a charcter object of length 1