IceSat2R (version 1.0.7)

download_file: Customized function to download files

Description

Customized function to download files

Usage

download_file(url, destfile, download_method, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

url

a character string specifying a valid url

destfile

a character string specifying a valid path where the output file will be saved

download_method

a character string specifying the download method to use. Can be one of 'internal', 'wininet' (Windows only), 'libcurl', 'wget', 'curl' or 'auto'. For more information see the documentation of the 'utils::download.file()' function

verbose

a boolean. If TRUE then information will appear in the console

References

https://github.com/mlverse/torchdatasets/blob/master/R/utils.R#L20

Examples

if (FALSE) {

require(IceSat2R)

# the default timeout is 60 and we set it to 600
options(timeout = 600)

# we specify a URL and a temporary file
default_url = "https://icesat-2.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/default/"
url_downl = glue::glue('{default_url}files/page_files/IS2RGTscycle12datetime.zip')
tmp_f = tempfile(fileext = '.zip')

# then we download the file
downl_f = download_file(url = url_downl,
                        destfile = tmp_f, 
                        download_method = 'curl',
                        verbose = TRUE)
}