#rstats tip: Working with spatial data from online sources? Downloading and unzipping? The fantastic /vsizip and /vsicurl-handlers from gdal allow you to read and query archives without unzipping. Both work directly in sf and stars. #rspatial 1/3 
Particularly useful if you work with large zip-archives . I was able to read a single tif (86 MB) from an 18 GB-archive in less than a minute directly from web. 2/3
The underlying layers and files can be queried with SQL without unzipping. Here I grab the Norwegian coast contour from a 3.6 GB-dataset. 3/3
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