Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
See ?download.file and argument 'mode'. You want to use mode="wb".
To R-core: I've asked it before, isn't the most common use case to
download files in 'binary' mode? I cannot even remember when I last
wanted to transfer a file in 'text' mode. I vote for making mode="wb"
the default.
Ideally, when doing this "ourselves" (rather than with external
applications), we would look at the header of the HTTP response and
determine the content based on the Content-Type field.
This is more reliable than having users specify it. So mode = NA
would be a better default.
(Coincidentally, I implemented this in the RCurl package just
yesterday in the getURLContent() function.)
/Henrik
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Fernando Bizuet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello,
I have been trying to download a pdf file but I only receive
a blank sheets.
I used the option internet2 in windows:
Rgui.exe --internet2
but I recieved the same result.
I use the next command:
ulr2 <- "http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf";
download.file(url = ulr2, destfile = "D:\\users2\\r-intro.pdf",cacheOK =
FALSE)
Any ideas how I can resolve this problem?
Thanks in advance,
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