On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Seth Falcon wrote:
So the help for loadURL says:
'loadURL' is a convenience wrapper which downloads a file, loads it and deletes the downloaded copy.
Trying to load an rda file on Windows (XP, R-devel) I was surprised when I received an error about input being corrupted with LF replaced by CR.
The fix was to specify mode="wb" to loadURL. This gets passed to download.file and the right thing happens...
On unix platforms it doesn't matter whether mode="w" or mode="wb".
Will loadURL ever do anything useful on Windows without passing mode="wb"? If not, I think changing the default (in loadURL) to mode="wb" would be a nice improvement.
Yes of course, as almost all Web files are text and the default is correct for them.
Why are you using an out-dated interface anyway? See the examples for loadURL!
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