resumableDownload: Download file using curl allowing resumption of interrupted...
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resumableDownload

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Download file using curl allowing resumption of interrupted files

Description

A helper function that uses the curl package's multi_download to download a file using a temporary file to store progress and resume downloading on interruption.

Usage

resumableDownload(
  url,
  outFile = basename(url),
  tmpFile = sprintf("%s.__TMP__", outFile),
  quiet = FALSE,
  resume = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

`url`	The address to download from
`outFile`	The file location to store final download at
`tmpFile`	The file location to store the intermediate download at
`quiet`	If TRUE show the progress reported by `multi_download`
`resume`	If TRUE try to resume interrupted downloads using intermediate file `tmpFile`. Otherwise delete `tempFile` on error
`...`	Additional arguments to `multi_download`

Value

invisibly return the output frmo multi_download

Examples

## Not run: 
  url<-'https://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pub/taxonomy/accession2taxid/prot.accession2taxid.FULL.1.gz'
  resumableDownload(url,'downloadedFile.gz')

## End(Not run)

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