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download files in R using wget -c

wget: Setting Download Method to "wget -c"

Loading this package will change the default behavior of 'download.file'. The download method will be changed to using "wget -c" so that continued downloading will be supported. User can run 'wget_unset()' to disable it.

All platforms including Linux, MacOS and Windows are supported.


What you need is to load the package by library(wget). Then download.file(), install.packages() and BiocManager::install() will all support continue retrival.

see also https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/z2ceLeSel1m8uxuNb1px3g (in Chinese).

You can load the wget package at R startup by adding the following command to ~/.Rprofile (~/Documents/.Rprofile if in Windows).

library(wget)