[R-pkg-devel] robust download function in R (similar to wget)?

[Joshua Ulrich]

Try downloader: https://cran.r-project.org/package=downloader

On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Lucas Ferreira Mation
<lucasmation at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am creating this package <https://github.com/lucasmation/microdadosBrasil>
> that has to download data from some sources that are a bit
> unstable/unreliable. The problem is described in this issue
> <https://github.com/lucasmation/microdadosBrasil/issues/56>.
>
> Is there a more "robust" download fucntion in R?
> Something similar to wget, that would:
>
> - where there are errors, repeat the download a few times before giving up,
> preferably, using partial data on a file being downloaded from previous
> attempts
> - check the integrity of the downloaded file
>
> As this has to be embedded in an R package, the solution needs to be OS
> independent and require no installation of external software by the user.
>
> regards
> Lucas
>
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