GET a document from ECOS.

Simple function to download a file from ECOS

download_document(url, file, pause = TRUE)

Arguments

url

A URL from ECOS to download a document

file

File to which the document will be downloaded

pause

Whether to pause for 0.5-3 seconds during scraping

Value

A data_frame with destination and success information

Details

This is a very thin wrapper for download_pdf. Keeping the function here just in case removal would break something else.

As with download_pdf, this function does an auto- rename to convert the URL to the file name, and places it in the destination directory, subd.

See also

download_pdf

Examples

## Not run: ------------------------------------
#   res <- download_document("http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/five_year_review/doc3847.pdf", 
#                            "~/Downloads/doc3847.pdf")
## ---------------------------------------------