Other code: read zipped url

fread.zip.url(url, filename = NULL, FUN = fread, ...)

Arguments

url	see vignette for a list of the cut
filename	for multiple files in the archive
FUN	default to fread from data.table but you could use anything
...	arguments passed to the function call (typically fread)

data.table of the remote file

This code is directly copied from https://stackoverflow.com/a/24586478

  # NOT RUN {
  dt <- fread.zip.url(http://data.bls.gov/cew/data/files/2000/csv/2000_qtrly_singlefile.zip)
  
# }