On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <henrik.bengts...@gmail.com> wrote: > Use mode="wb" when you download the file. See > https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/Wishlist-for-R/issues/30. > > R core, and others, is there a good argument for why we are not making this > the default download mode? It seems like a such a simple fix to such a > common "mistake".
I'd like to second this feature request. This default behaviour is unexpected and often leads to r scripts that were written on mac/linux, to produce corrupted files on windows, checksum mismatches, etc. Even for text files, the default should be to download the file as-is. Trying to "fix" line-endings should be opt-in, never the default. Downloading a file via a browser or ftp client on windows also doesn't change the file, why should R? On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Many downloads are text files (HTML, CSV, etc.), and if those are downloaded > in binary, a Windows user might end up with a file that Notepad can't > handle, because it would have Unix-style line endings. True but I don't think this is relevant. The same holds e.g. for the R files in source packages, which also have unix line endings. Most Windows users will use an actual editor that understands both types of line endings, or can convert between the two. Downloading-file should do just that. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
