get_gfed4() does not run in RStudio, only in terminal about caliver HOT 5 CLOSED

This is due to the 'ncl' tool to convert hdf4 to netcdf. If this dependecy could be somehow lifted, the usability of the package would improve.

Help/suggestions needed!

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In Windows I had a problem with that function even in the terminal. I think it could be solved adding
,mode="wb" in the line 107:
download.file(url = the_url, destfile = file.path(my_temp_dir, fname), quiet = TRUE, cacheOK = TRUE, mode= "wb")
Otherwise, the hdf5 downloaded file is not valid. I took the cue from here.

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I am having a problem of running get_gfed4 using terminal. The error is shown below:

BurnedAreas <- get_gfed4(start_date = "2003-01-01", end_date = "2015-12-31", temporal_resolution = "daily", varname = "BurnedArea", region = "GLOB")
Error in curl::curl_fetch_disk(url, x$path, handle = handle) :
Timeout was reached: Connection time-out
Either the data or the server are unavailable.
Error in get_gfed4(start_date = "2003-01-01", end_date = "2015-12-31",  :
Please check whether your dates are valid or try again later.

What could be causing this?

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GFED ftp seems no longer working (http://globalfiredata.org/pages/data/#burned-area).
The function get_gfed() will be deprecated.

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The function get_gfed() is now defunct.

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