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Get the Size of a Remote File from its URL

Source: R/utils_remote.R
remote_size.Rd

Retrieves the size of a remote file by sending a HEAD request to the specified URL and extracting the Content-Length header.

Usage

remote_size(url)

Arguments

url

Character string specifying the URL of the remote file.

Value

A numeric value representing the size of the remote file in bytes.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
url <- "https://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2024/shp/cb_2024_us_state_20m.zip"
remote_size(url)
} # }