Polite file download

rip(
  bow,
  destfile = NULL,
  ...,
  mode = "wb",
  path = tempdir(),
  overwrite = FALSE
)

Arguments

bow	host introduction object of class `polite`, `session` created by `bow()` or `nod()`
destfile	optional new file name to use when saving the file. If missing, it will be guessed from `basename(url)``
...	other parameters passed to `download.file`
mode	character. The mode with which to write the file. Useful values are `w`, `wb` (binary), `a` (append) and `ab`. Not used for methods `wget` and `curl`.
path	character. Path where to save the destfile. By default is temporary directory created with `tempdir()` Ignored if `destfile` contains path along with filename.
overwrite	if `TRUE` will overwrite file on disk

Full path to the locally saved file indicated by the user in destfile (and path)

# \donttest{
bow("https://www.cheese.com/") %>%
 nod("media/img/sub-page-slide2.jpg") %>%
 rip()
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmpByiryW/sub-page-slide2.jpg"
# }