axel downloader

Source: R/axel.R

R wrapper for axel, which enables multi-threaded download of a single large file.

axel(
  input_url,
  output_path,
  background = FALSE,
  nThread = 1,
  force_overwrite = FALSE,
  quiet = TRUE,
  alternate = TRUE,
  check_certificates = FALSE,
  conda_env = "echoR"
)

Arguments

input_url

URL to remote file.
output_path

The file name you want to save the download as.
background

Run in background
nThread

Number of threads to parallelize over.
force_overwrite

Overwrite existing file.
quiet

Run quietly.
alternate

alternate,
check_certificates

check_certificates
conda_env

Conda environment to use.

Value

Path where the file has been downloaded

See also

https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel/

Other downloaders: downloader(), wget()