Possible file types include .zip, .gz, and .tar
Usage
get_compressed_data(url, target_dir, force = FALSE)
Arguments
- url
A character vector representing the full url to the compressed file
- target_dir
The directory where the compressed file should be downloaded
- force
An optional argument which forcefully overwrites existing data
Value
Download and extract the compressed data file
Examples
get_compressed_data(url = "http://www.test.com/file.zip", target_dir = "./")
#> Data already exists
if (FALSE) {
get_compressed_data(url = "http://www.test.com/file.zip", target_dir = "./")
}
