Download file from a web address — download

It associates your download button to a web link. This might be an alternative when your file is too big for being handled by download_this().

Usage

download_link(
  link,
  button_label = "Download data",
  button_type = c("default", "primary", "success", "info", "warning", "danger"),
  has_icon = TRUE,
  icon = "fa fa-save",
  self_contained = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

link: A web address for downloadthing the file.
button_label: Character (HTML), button label
button_type: Character, one of the standard Bootstrap types
has_icon: Specify whether to include fontawesome icons in the button label
icon: Fontawesome tag e.g.: "fa fa-save"
self_contained: A boolean to specify whether your HTML output is self-contained. Default to FALSE.
...: attributes (named arguments) and children (unnamed arguments) of the button, passed to htmltools::tag().

Value

htmltools::tag, <button>

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
## Link in Github repo
download_link(
  link = "https://github.com/fmmattioni/downloadthis/raw/master/inst/example/file_1.pdf",
  button_label = "Download pdf file",
  button_type = "danger",
  has_icon = TRUE,
  icon = "fa fa-save",
  self_contained = FALSE
)
} # }