library(RCurl)
x <- getURL("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/petferns/csvfile/master/datasets.csv")
y <- read.csv(text = x)
summary(y)
##    Package              Item              Title                Rows         
##  Length:1303        Length:1303        Length:1303        Min.   :     2.0  
##  Class :character   Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:    30.0  
##  Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :    89.0  
##                                                           Mean   :  1523.8  
##                                                           3rd Qu.:   410.5  
##                                                           Max.   :372864.0  
##       Cols            n_binary        n_character         n_factor     
##  Min.   :   1.00   Min.   :  0.000   Min.   : 0.0000   Min.   : 0.000  
##  1st Qu.:   3.00   1st Qu.:  0.000   1st Qu.: 0.0000   1st Qu.: 0.000  
##  Median :   5.00   Median :  0.000   Median : 0.0000   Median : 0.000  
##  Mean   :  14.69   Mean   :  1.999   Mean   : 0.1642   Mean   : 1.188  
##  3rd Qu.:   8.00   3rd Qu.:  2.000   3rd Qu.: 0.0000   3rd Qu.: 2.000  
##  Max.   :6831.00   Max.   :624.000   Max.   :16.0000   Max.   :64.000  
##    n_logical          n_numeric           CSV                Doc           
##  Min.   : 0.00000   Min.   :   0.00   Length:1303        Length:1303       
##  1st Qu.: 0.00000   1st Qu.:   2.00   Class :character   Class :character  
##  Median : 0.00000   Median :   4.00   Mode  :character   Mode  :character  
##  Mean   : 0.02302   Mean   :  13.28                                        
##  3rd Qu.: 0.00000   3rd Qu.:   7.00                                        
##  Max.   :11.00000   Max.   :6830.00