Download Files from Dropbox Programmatically with R
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Here is a usefull snippet that I stole from qdap::url_dl to download files from my Dropbox to the working directory.Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Argument x is the document name and d the document key.
dl_from_dropbox <- function(x, key) { require(RCurl) bin <- getBinaryURL(paste0("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/", key, "/", x), ssl.verifypeer = FALSE) con <- file(x, open = "wb") writeBin(bin, con) close(con) message(noquote(paste(x, "read into", getwd()))) } # Example: dl_from_dropbox("GViewer_Embeds.txt", "06fqlz6gswj80nj") shell.exec("GViewer_Embeds.txt")PS: Also see this R-package for interfacing with Dropbox
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