write_disk {httr} | R Documentation |
The default behaviour is to use write_memory()
, which caches
the response locally in memory. This is useful when talking to APIs as
it avoids a round-trip to disk. If you want to save a file that's bigger
than memory, use write_disk()
to save it to a known path.
write_disk(path, overwrite = FALSE) write_memory()
path |
Path to content to. |
overwrite |
Will only overwrite existing |
tmp <- tempfile() r1 <- GET("https://www.google.com", write_disk(tmp)) readLines(tmp) # The default r2 <- GET("https://www.google.com", write_memory()) # Save a very large file ## Not run: GET("http://www2.census.gov/acs2011_5yr/pums/csv_pus.zip", write_disk("csv_pus.zip"), progress()) ## End(Not run)