Reading data from URL

Question

Is there a reasonably easy way to get data from some url? I tried the most obvious version, does not work:

readcsv(\"https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/.../test         


        

Answer 1

If you are looking to read into a dataframe, this will also work in Julia:

using CSV   

dataset = CSV.read(download("https://mywebsite.edu/ml/machine-learning-databases/my.data"))