Importing images into R from the internet

Question

I have been looking though packages for R, and have yet to find one that allows me to pull images, be it jpeg, png, or w/e else, into R from the internet. Does such a package even exist? I have found many that can pull from local files, but pulling from online would be ideal. Ty in advance.

Answer 1

Here's an article that shows you how to do it, Importing data into R from different sources

This is what it says:

Text File From the Internet

I find this very useful when I need to get datasets from a Web site. This is >particularly useful if I need to rerun the script and the Web site continually >updates their data. This save me from having to download the dataset into a >csv file each time I need to run an update. In this example I use one of my >favorite data sources which comes from the National Data Buoy Center. This >example pulls data from a buoy (buoy #44025) off the coast of New Jersey. >Conveniently you can use the same read.csv() function that you would use if >read the file from you own computer. You simply replace the file location with >the URL of the data.

file <- "<a href="http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_text_file.php?filename=44025h2011.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet/">http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/view_text_file.php?filename=44025h2011.txt.gz&dir=data/historical/stdmet/</a>" raw_data <- read.csv(file, header=T, skip=1)

I hope this helps!