title: wget options to get output straight to R
body: <p>I have a wget_string and commands made as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>wget_string &lt;- paste("wget --user=" , u_name , " --password=", p_word,     " ", my_urls,' -qO ', file_name,   sep="")
   system(wget_string)
   readLines(file_name)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Which works, but then I have to use readLines() to read the file into R. I would like to run the command so that file is available directly in R, without being saved to the hard disk and then loaded from it. </p>
  
  <p>I'm hoping to save resources by loading the file straight into R from the web. Can't use readlines from the beginning because of the secure server. What are the options for this?</p>