Rent A Coder - R statistics script using RCurl package(repost)

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R statistics script using RCurl package(repost)
Bid Request Id: 1287108

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Posted by:	Zeta2_Reticulli (37 ratings) (Software buyer rating 9.62)
Non-action Ratio:	Very Good - 12.31%
Buyer Security Verifications:	Excellent
Approved on:	Nov 7, 2009 3:51:24 AM EDT
Bidding Closes:	Nov 22, 2009 3:51:23 AM EDT
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Deadline:	1 days.

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Cancelled

Buyer cancelled on 11/10/2009 2:18:11 AM because: "I was busy and did not have the time to write this myself. However it proved to be quite specialized and there were no bids (few people have exposure to the R language).

I set aside 10 minutes and completed it myself. I have included the script I wrote here, for those who might find it useful:

# load RCurl and RCompression
library("RCurl")
library("RCompression")

# Use RCurl to fetch compressed data file synchronously
data = getURLContent("http://localhost/test.zip")
ar = zipArchive(data)
read.csv(textConnection(ar[[1]]), header = TRUE)".

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I am looking for an accomplished R programmer in this "proof of concept" initial project. This project provides a fabtastic opportunity for an experienced R programmer to quickly earn themselves a good rating.

The purpose of this project therefore is twofold:

1). To provide a "proof of concept" R script which I can test on my machine.

2). To hopefully discover an experienced R programmer that I can work with on subsequent R based projects.

The requirement for this project is laid out below:

REQUIREMENT
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A simple R script that shows using the RCurl package in a script to request data from a URL and scan the received data into an R table.

The data received from the URL will be in tabular form, and will be plain ASCII but compressed to save on bandwidth.
The data is likely to be several hundreds of thousands of rows long and will thus need to be continually added to table until all of the data is received.

Note:
This is a relatively trivial project that should take an experienced R programmer not very long to accomplish. part of the reason I posted this project was to find an R programmer who can help with other R related projects (from EDA to scripts to generate surface plots etc).

Documentation for the RCurl package can be found here: http://www.omegahat.org/RCurl/

Platform:
Linux (Ubuntu 9.10)

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1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.
2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows (depending on the nature of the deliverables):
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3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).

All deliverables must be uploaded to Rent A Coder before the deadline(s) for this project...with no exceptions. If this contract makes it impossible for a competent person to do this, then do not start this project...but instead alert Rent A Coder of an un-arbitratable, illegal project.
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C++ / C, Other (software language), Other

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	Bidding Closes At:	Nov 22, 2009 3:51:23 AM EDT
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No bidding allowed, because this bid request was cancelled.
Cancelled Date:	11/10/2009 2:18:11 AM
Cancelled Reason:	I was busy and did not have the time to write this myself. However it proved to be quite specialized and there were no bids (few people have exposure to the R language). I set aside 10 minutes and completed it myself. I have included the script I wrote here, for those who might find it useful: # load RCurl and RCompression library("RCurl") library("RCompression") # Use RCurl to fetch compressed data file synchronously data = getURLContent("http://localhost/test.zip") ar = zipArchive(data) read.csv(textConnection(ar[[1]]), header = TRUE)
Cancelled By:	Person id: 738789

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