[R] Accessing defunct package

[Sarah Goslee]

Not an R question, but tangentially relevant:

On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Dennis Fisher <fisher at plessthan.com> wrote:
> David
>
> Thanks for suggesting this.  Three issues of note:
>
> 1.  I too work on a Mac.  When I downloaded the last archived version (which has a .gz extension), OS X automatically unzipped the file and removed the .gz extension.  I was able to gzip the file so that I could execute your exact command.  However, I am curious whether you were able to download without OS X unzipping it.

Forever or for one download, it's a Safari setting:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1483114?start=0&tstart=0

And if you forget, the zipped version is in your Trash.

Sarah

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