Download png/jpg with R

Question

i would like to download all of images from this site but after downloading photos all are corrupted. What i should do to download them successfully?

My code:

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Answer 1

So it looks you are under Windows. When you download binary files, you have to specify the mode to be binary, e.g.

download.file(link, ..., mode = 'wb')

see ?download.file for details.

Answer 2

First, try and download one. Do this:

link = "http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0q2g8mhGK1qk6uvyo1_500.png"
download.file(link,basename(link))

Does that work?

I notice its a PNG and NOT a JPEG, so maybe you are trying to read it in as a JPEG.