[Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)

[peter dalgaard]

There was a hint in the Twitterverse that Excel has issues with line endings in .csv. Can anyone elaborate on that? Then again, Excel goes belly-up on comma separators in central European locales anyway...

-pd

> On 8 May 2018, at 22:47 , Hadley Wickham <h.wickham at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Also note that MS just announced support for unix line endings in notepad
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> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/commandline/2018/05/08/extended-eol-in-notepad/
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> Hadley
> 

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