You will find all downloaded books (in PDF format) in a folder named “springer_quarantine_books”, organized by category.

setwd('path_of_your_choice') # where you want to save the booksĭownload_springer_book_files() # download all of them at once Note that it takes several minutes (depending on the speed of your internet connection) since all books combined amount for almost 8GB. Without further ado, here is how the package works in practice.įirst, set the path where you would like to save all books with the setwd() function then download all of them at once with the download_springer_book_files() function.

how to download a subset of books, given a specific title, author or subject.

how to download all available textbooks at once and.

With this large collection of high quality resources and my collection of top R resources about the Coronavirus, we do not have any excuse to not read and learn during this quarantine.

This package allows you to easily download all (or a selection of) Springer books made available free of charge during the COVID-19 quarantine. In this article, I present a package that saved me a lot of time and which may be of interest to many of us: the package, developed by Renan Xavier Cortes. According to Springer, these textbooks will be available free of charge until at least the end of July.įollowing this announcement, I already downloaded a couple of statistics and R programming textbooks from their website and I will probably download a few more in the coming weeks. You probably already have seen that Springer released about 500 books for free following the COVID-19 pandemic.

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