Hi everyone, In the situation that the remote file does not exist, download.file fails, yet it still creates a file as provided for "destfile" argument. I tried to delete this bad file but got the message that it is still being used by "other programs", which I assume is R.
Does anyone know how to avoid this problem? Potential solutions I can think of now is either checking the existence on remote server before using download.file, or change download.file's behavior, or use other functions. Any suggestions are appreciated. Stanley -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/When-download.file-fails...-tp22234662p22234662.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
