Hi everyone, In the situation that the remote file does not exist, download.file fails, yet it still creates a file as provided for "destfile" argument. I tried to delete this bad file but got the message that it is still being used by "other programs", which I assume is R. Does anyone know how to avoid this problem? Potential solutions I can think of now is either checking the existence on remote server before using download.file, or change download.file's behavior, or use other functions. Any suggestions are appreciated. Stanley
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