Re: [comp.soft-sys.stat.spss] How to read data file directly from a URL

I wrote:
>      An interesting idea from the SPSS newsgroup.
>
>      On topic:
>      Is there any convenient way to use SPSS read a data file directly from
>      a URL?  I'm thinking of something like:
>      
>      get file = "http://www.myspssdatafiles/GSS2004.sav"; .

Jason Stover <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> added:
> R can do this. It makes lab demonstrations
> very easy for students.

John Darrington <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> added:
> It would be very easy to implement, if we link with libcurl.  Let's
> add it as a feature which get's automatically compiled in if autoconf
> detects that libcurl is available.

Thanks for the comments.  I've now filed a "wishlist" bug report.
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