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Dc is a package for the R statistical language that downloads files from the web in such a way as to permit caching by filename. This is accomplished by constructing filenames based on the web queries used to download the data. For example, when the dc.topo function retrieves a topographic matrix for a particular region, it embeds the location and resolution in name of the file it downloads, so that a second call to dc.topo with the same parameters yields the existing filename, without causing a second download.

Development of this package takes place on https://github.com/dankelley/dc.

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