A nice default value for the `destfile` argument in download.file() would be `basename(url)` i.e. the name of the downloaded file. This would correspond to default behavior in many other web/ftp clients and makes code slightly more concise:
download.file("https://svn.r-project.org/R/trunk/doc/CRAN_mirrors.csv") mirrors <- read.csv("CRAN_mirrors.csv") [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel