get_remote_file: Function to get/download file from an 'URL'.

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Function to get/download file from an URL.

Description

Function to get/download file from an URL.

Usage

get_remote_file(
  file_remote,
  file_local,
  verbose = TRUE,
  mode = "w",
  method = "auto",
  cache_ok = TRUE,
  sleep = FALSE
)

Arguments

file_remote	Vector of URLs/remote file names.
file_local	Vector of local file names, the destination files for file_remote.
verbose	Should the function give messages about download progress?
mode	Mode with which to write the file.
method	Method for downloading remote files.
cache_ok	Is a server-side cached value acceptable?
sleep	If a number, this is the number of seconds to sleep between download iterations. This can help with keeping some web servers happy.

Author(s)

Stuart K. Grange

See Also

download.file

skgrange/threadr documentation built on Jan. 10, 2025, 10:06 a.m.