download.file( url = filename , destfile = location.to.save.locally , mode
= 'wb' )


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Alemu Tadesse <alemu.tadesse@gmail.com>wrote:

> I am trying to download the tar files on the website below
>
> filename<-"
> http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/old_data/nsrdb/1991-2010/SolarAnywhere/x.tar"
> where x is one those tar files
> I downloaded x using download.file(). But, the file was corrupt. Can
> someone help me how to download and untar these files using R.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alemu
>
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