thisutils (version 0.0.5)

download: Download File from the Internet

Description

Download File from the Internet

Usage

download(
  url,
  destfile,
  methods = c("auto", "wget", "libcurl", "curl", "wininet", "internal"),
  verbose = TRUE,
  ...,
  max_tries = 2
)

Arguments

url

a character string (or longer vector for the "libcurl" method) naming the URL of a resource to be downloaded.

destfile

a character string (or vector, see the url argument) with the file path where the downloaded file is to be saved. Tilde-expansion is performed.

methods

Methods to be used for downloading files. The default is to try different download methods in turn until the download is successfully completed.

verbose

Logical value, default is TRUE. Whether to print progress messages.

...

Other arguments passed to utils::download.file

max_tries

Number of tries for each download method.