Allowing Students to Read in Data Using Read.csv(URL)

I'm writing questions for an online test (held through Moodle) using R's `exams` package. Some of these questions include CSV files that students need to read into R and analyse. It'd be great if students could read their data into R simply using `read.csv(URL for the Moodle plug-in file)`, rather than having to read it in by downloading the data set by clicking the link to it within the question, saving it to a working directory, and then reading it into R from where they saved it. Below is a MWE where I try to create a question where students could read a CSV file into R in the desired way. ```` #rmd file contents ```{r gen data, echo=FALSE, results='hide'} x<-rnorm(20) df<-data.frame(x) write.csv(df,"dataset.csv",row.names=F) ``` Question ====== Downloading data set using URL: `read.csv("dataset.csv")` Downloading via link: [click this link](dataset.csv) Just adding a dummy question: Enter the number 1 ##ANSWER1## Meta-information ================ extype: cloze exclozetype: num exsolution: 1 extitle: Testing dataset download using URL exsection: Testing dataset download using URL ```` The screenshot below shows how the resulting question looks when exported into Moodle: [![Data Set Question MWE][1]][1] When one tries to read the CSV file into R by reading directly from the plug-in file URL (e.g. by entering `read.csv("https://moodlestack.otago.ac.nz/pluginfile.php/2497/question/questiontext/21614/1/129512/dataset.csv")`, in this example), what's read into R is HTML code (I think the instructions for downloading the file when a link to it is clicked). I've included below the first few lines of it. [![CSV HTML][2]][2] What we're obviously wanting is for only the CSV file data to be read in after entering `read.csv(URL)`. Is this going to be possible? P.S. The reason for wanting this is that many of our 100-level students find the steps involved in reading a file into R to be difficult (most of our students have very limited quantitative and computer skills). We make them read files in the standard way in our assignments, but in the test where there's a higher grade, it'd be good if they didn't lose many the marks simply from not being able to read a file in (or being unable to fix errors that arise when doing so). [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/HX0d0iOy.png [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/fzzdJ4P6.png