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diff --git a/r.html.markdown b/r.html.markdown
index 8539b10e..e7486e60 100644
--- a/r.html.markdown
+++ b/r.html.markdown
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ class(-Inf) # "numeric"
2.0 * 2L # 4 # numeric times integer gives numeric
3L / 4 # 0.75 # integer over numeric gives numeric
3 %% 2 # 1 # the remainder of two numerics is another numeric
-# Illegal arithmetic yeilds you a "not-a-number":
+# Illegal arithmetic yields you a "not-a-number":
0 / 0 # NaN
class(NaN) # "numeric"
# You can do arithmetic on two vectors with length greater than 1,
@@ -662,8 +662,9 @@ require(plyr)
#########################
# "pets.csv" is a file on the internet
-# (but it could just as easily be be a file on your own computer)
-pets <- read.csv("http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/pets.csv")
+# (but it could just as easily be a file on your own computer)
+require(RCurl)
+pets <- read.csv(textConnection(getURL("http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/pets.csv")))
pets
head(pets, 2) # first two rows
tail(pets, 1) # last row