Source R-Script from Dropbox
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(1) Upload the script..
(2) Get link with the “get link” option. The link should look like “https://www.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXX/yourscript.R”..
(3) Grab this part “XXXXXX/yourscript.R” and paste it to “http://dl.dropbox.com/s/”..
(4) the final URL that can be sourced:
source("http://dl.dropbox.com/s/XXXXXX/yourscript.R")..an example with this script stored at my Dropbox account:source("http://dl.dropbox.com/s/c18lcwnnrodsevt/test_dropbox_source.R")
EDIT, March 2013:
This method is not working anymore. You can use the following approach instead:
library(RCurl)
setwd(tempdir())
destfile = "test.txt"
x = getBinaryURL("https://dl.dropbox.com/u/68286640/test_dropbox_source.R", followlocation = TRUE, ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)
writeBin(x, destfile, useBytes = TRUE)
source(paste(tempdir(), "/test.txt", sep = ""))
# remove files from tempdir:
unlink(dir())
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