On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:57 PM, kokavolchkov <kokavolch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> mode="wb": AFAIK You have taken the professor somewhat too literally. "AFAIK" means "As Far As I Know". The 'mode="wb"' goes *inside* the download.file function call. It modifies the default behaviour of download.file. STL (SomeThing Like): download.file(url="http://example.com/foo.nc", destfile="c:/bar/baz.nc", mode="wb") That should work (if you replace the url and dest correctly... Anyway, made me LOL. Barry ______________________________________________ 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.