suppressing 'download.file' progress window
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Roger D. Peng wrote:
In Windows, 'download.file' pops up a separate window indicating the progress of the download (even when 'quiet = TRUE'). This is useful and informative when downloading a single (large) file. However, when downloading multiple (smaller) files in sucession, the constant flashing of the progress window can be a little disorienting (at least for me). Is there a way to suppress this progress window? Or is it an operating system feature?
The write up was somewhat confusing. 'quiet=TRUE' suppresses the status messages on all platforms, and the (text) progress bar. Only in R-devel does it suppress the progress bar widget on Windows. That said, the main time I download many files is via update.packages() or install.packages(), and there was no provision to set quiet=TRUE from those: I've just added ... to allow that.
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