Message-ID: <23282.64503.20020.488944@rob.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2018-05-09T13:47:35Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)
In-Reply-To: <b72c6aaa-ccc3-57f8-c588-a9484e28d28d@gmail.com>
On 9 May 2018 at 10:37, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
| And for that reason the behavior should be as intuitive as possible when
| designed. What was intuitive 15-20 years ago may not be intuitive now,
| but that should probably not be a justification for a change in
| documented behavior.
Time for downloadFile() (or download_file()) to complement the existing
download.file() but providing what we now think of as intuitive behaviour?
Dirk
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