The title of the post is a bit long, but that’s the problem I was facing this morning: importing dataset from files, online. I mean, it was not a “problem” (since I can always download, and extract manually the files), more a challenge (I should be able to do it in R, directly). The files are located on ressources-actuarielles.net, in a zip file. Those are mortality tables used in French speaking African countries, and I guess that one problem came from special characters, such as “é” or “è”… When you open the zip file, you see a folder

and in that folder, several files that I would like to import

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