[R] Problems when I try to download.file pdfs

[Henrik Bengtsson]

See ?download.file and argument 'mode'.  You want to use mode="wb".

To R-core: I've asked it before, isn't the most common use case to
download files in 'binary' mode?  I cannot even remember when I last
wanted to transfer a file in 'text' mode.  I vote for making mode="wb"
the default.

/Henrik

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Fernando Bizuet <fbizuet at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I have been trying to download a pdf file but I only receive
> a blank sheets.
>
> I used the option internet2 in windows:
>
> Rgui.exe --internet2
>
> but I recieved the same result.
>
> I use the next command:
>
> ulr2 <- "http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf"
>
> download.file(url = ulr2, destfile = "D:\\users2\\r-intro.pdf",cacheOK =
> FALSE)
> Any ideas how I can resolve this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
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