On 9 May 2018 at 10:37, Tomas Kalibera wrote: | And for that reason the behavior should be as intuitive as possible when | designed. What was intuitive 15-20 years ago may not be intuitive now, | but that should probably not be a justification for a change in | documented behavior.
Time for downloadFile() (or download_file()) to complement the existing download.file() but providing what we now think of as intuitive behaviour? Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel