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retire downloader package
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It was important before utils handled ssl.  It hasn't been updated since 2015

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wibeasley committed Feb 19, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -129,8 +129,6 @@ Many base and CRAN packages provide functions that download files:

- [utils](https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/utils/html/00Index.html)'s `download.file()`.
- `r pkg("curl")`'s `curl_download()`, and `curl_fetch_multi()`, and friends.
- `r pkg("downloader")` wraps `utils::download.file()`, and takes all the same arguments.
[I think this entry can be removed. It was important before utils handled ssl. It hasn't been updated since 2015]
- An alternative is to use `httr::GET()` (or `RCurl::getURL()`) to first read
the file into R as a character vector before parsing with a function like `utils::read.table(text = ...)`.

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