Download Files from Dropbox Programmatically with R

Here is a usefull snippet that I stole from qdap::url_dl to download files from my Dropbox to the working directory. Argument x is the document name and d the document key.

dl_from_dropbox                         require(RCurl)                         bin                                             ssl.verifypeer = FALSE)                         con                         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")