How to Read a CSV from URL into R?

In this article, we are going to see how to read CSV files from URL using R Programming Language.

Method 1: Using Base R 

Here we are using read.csv() methods, which is an inbuilt function in R programming. This function is similar to Python because it read the CSV file and returns the data into dataframe.

Syntax: 

read.csv(URL)

Example: Read a CSV from URL 

 Output:

Method 2: Using data.table

This package is capable to read the data from URL. Basically data.table is used for data manipulation operations such as subset, group, update, join, etc. This package contains fread() function that takes URL as input to get the job done.

Syntax: 

fread(URL)

Example: Read CSV from URL 

 Output:

Example 2: Read CSV from URL

 Output: