On Windows, if mode is not supplied (missing()) and url ends in one of .gz, .bz2, .xz, .tgz, .zip, .rda, .rds or .RData, mode = "wb" is set such that a binary transfer is done to help unwary users. Code written to download binary files must use mode = "wb" (or "ab"), but the problems incurred by a text transfer will only be seen on Windows. Value How to fetch a file from FTP and import into SQL Server automatically FTP Download. Step one is to fetch the latest data from another server via FTP. Now that you've automated the fetching
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