download.github {TAF}

Download GitHub Repository

Description

Download a repository from GitHub in ‘tar.gz’ format.

Usage

download.github(repo, dir = ".", quiet = FALSE)

Arguments

repo

GitHub reference of the form ⁠owner/repo[/subdir]@ref⁠.

dir

directory to download to.

quiet

whether to suppress messages.

Value

Name of downloaded ⁠tar.gz⁠ file.

Note

In general, TAF scripts do not access the internet using download.github or similar functions. Instead, data and software are declared in ⁠DATA.bib⁠ and ⁠SOFTWARE.bib⁠ and then downloaded using taf.boot. The exception is when a boot script is used to fetch files from a web service (see TAF Wiki).

See Also

taf.boot uses download.github to fetch software and data repositories.

download downloads a file.

untar extracts a ⁠tar.gz⁠ archive.

taf.install installs a package in ⁠tar.gz⁠ format.

TAF-package gives an overview of the package.

Examples

## Not run: 
# Specify release tag
download.github("ices-tools-prod/icesAdvice@1.3-0")

# Specify SHA reference code
download.github("ices-tools-prod/icesAdvice@4271797")

## End(Not run)