Download Instructional Documents

Usage

url_dl(..., url = 61803503)

Arguments

url
The download url or Dropbox key.
...
Document names to download. Quoted strings (complete urls) can also be supplied (if so no url argument is supplied).

Value

Places a copy of the downloaded document in the users working directory.

Description

This function enables downloading documents for future instructional training.

Examples

## <strong>Not run</strong>: # ## Example 1 (download from Dropbox) # # download transcript of the debate to working directory # library(qdap) # url_dl(pres.deb1.docx, pres.deb2.docx, pres.deb3.docx) # # # load multiple files with read transcript and assign to working directory # dat1 <- read.transcript("pres.deb1.docx", c("person", "dialogue")) # dat2 <- read.transcript("pres.deb2.docx", c("person", "dialogue")) # dat3 <- read.transcript("pres.deb3.docx", c("person", "dialogue")) # # docs <- qcv(pres.deb1.docx, pres.deb2.docx, pres.deb3.docx) # dir() %in% docs # library(reports); delete(docs) #remove the documents # dir() %in% docs # # ## Example 2 (quoted string urls) # url_dl("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/61803503/qdap.pdf", # "http://www.cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-intro.pdf") # # delete(c("qdap.pdf", "R-intro.pdf")) # ## <strong>End(Not run)</strong>