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Download a File

Source: R/lib_data_loader.R
download_data.Rd

Thin wrapper around utils::download.file() that returns the target path invisibly so it composes in pipelines.

Usage

download_data(url, target_path, mode = "wb", quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

url

URL to download.

target_path

Destination path on disk.

mode

Write mode passed to utils::download.file(); defaults to "wb" (binary) for cross-platform safety.

quiet

Logical; suppress progress output. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

The target_path, returned invisibly.