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Re: Loading packages from the internet?

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  • Subject: [mg75437] Re: Loading packages from the internet?
  • From: Szabolcs <szhorvat at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 03:17:17 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: University of Bergen
  • References: <f146t1$mhv$1@smc.vnet.net>

Heiko Damerau wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
>      Maybe I have overlooked something very simple, but I am looking for
> a simple way to load Mathematica packages from an URL. That means, I
> would like to put my packages somewhere on a directory that is
> accessible from the web (http://www.xxx.xx/xxx/xxx/package.m) and load
> them with any other computer running Mathematica (with network
> connection, of course), directly from the web resource.
> 
>      Does anybody has an idea how this could be done easily?
> 
>      Thank you very much for your help in advance.
> 
> Best regards,
> Heiko
> 
> 
> 

For some reason Get[] doesn't like URLs, but if you have a new version 
of Mathematica, you could try this:

ToExpression@Import["http://path/to/package.m";, "Text"]

Szabolcs


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