Re: [Rd] default destfile in download.file()

2016-02-19 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 18.02.2016 12:01, Jeroen Ooms wrote: 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.f

[Rd] default destfile in download.file()

2016-02-18 Thread Jeroen Ooms
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/CR