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chroGPS (version 1.16.0)

getURL: Retrieve file from URL.

Description

A function that can be used to retrieve any file of interest from the internet, in our case, modEncode binding site information GFF files into the working directory. See also help for function gff2RDList.

Usage

getURL(urls, filenames, extension='.gff3', method='internal')

Arguments

urls
Character vector with one or more target URLs to download.
filenames
Character vector with the filename for each URL target.
extension
If desired, an extension to append to filenames.
method
Either 'internal' to use the system's default or 'wget' if it is installed.

Value

Message indicating the path to downloaded file(s).

Examples

Run this code
# Not run
#getURL('http://www.google.com/index.html','index','.html')

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