Analysis in R: Why not download files in R? The ‘downloader’ package

This is an introduction to the ‘downloader’ package, which allows you to download files from http, https and ftp URLs in R. For reference, here is an example of downloading a zip file of version 1.4.4 of the ‘httr’ package from CRAN.

Package version is 0.4. Checked with R version 4.2.2.

Install Package

Run the following command.

#Install Package
install.packages("downloader")

Example

See the command and package help for details.

#Loading the library
library("downloader")
library("tcltk")

#Specify where to save the file
setwd(paste(as.character(tkchooseDirectory(title = "save the file"), sep = "", collapse ="")))

#Download version 1.4.4 of the "httr" package
download("https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.2/httr_1.4.4.zip",
         "httr_1.4.4.zip", mode = "wb")

I hope this makes your analysis a little easier !!