From edd @ending from debi@n@org  Wed May  9 15:47:35 2018
From: edd @ending from debi@n@org (Dirk Eddelbuettel)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 08:47:35 -0500
Subject: [Rd] 
 download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)
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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

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[Rd] download.file does not process gz files correctly (truncates them?)
Dirk Eddelbuettel