Polite download

Usage

polite_download_file(
  url,
  destfile = guess_basename(url),
  ...,
  quiet = !verbose,
  mode = "wb",
  path = "downloads/",
  user_agent = paste0("polite ", getOption("HTTPUserAgent")),
  delay = 5,
  force = FALSE,
  overwrite = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

url: web address for the file to be downloaded
destfile: name of destination file
...: additional arguments passed to download.file
quiet: default value is inverse of verbose
mode: download mode. Default value is "wb"
path: path to save. Default path downloads/
user_agent: default value paste0("polite ", getOption("HTTPUserAgent"))
delay: default value equal 5
force: force re-download of robots.txt
overwrite: overwrite downloaded file. Default value FALSE
verbose: default value is FALSE