read_vpfiles() support reading remote files

[peterdesmet]

Cf. how readr::read_csv() allows to read remote csv files, it would be useful that read_vpfiles() did the same. This especially useful to create reproducible examples:

library(bioRad)
read_vpfiles("https://aloft.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/baltrad/hdf5/bejab/2022/08/19/bejab_vp_20220819T235500Z_0x9.h5")

[bart1]

I have looked at some stage into this. Reading h5 files from remote is not easy. I would avoid going there. If you are referring to the csv it is indeed easily done without temporary files using vroom or readr (the former allows to modify the request using curl which can be useful for authentication).

[bart1]

I just saw your example was with an h5 file there fore my feedback

[peterdesmet]

I agree that reading csv files remotely is quite easy, can be implemented in read_vpts() (#551). That would help to write shorter reproducible examples. The typical workflow would still be to download first (#553) and read second.