predl_github_assets {binman}

Pre download Github assets

Description

Pre download Github assets template function

Usage

predl_github_assets(
  url,
  platform,
  history,
  appname,
  fileregex = "",
  platformregex = platform,
  versionregex = c("", "")
)

Arguments

url

A url giving the github asset JSON for a project. As an example https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases the geckodriver project has an asset JSON available at https://api.github.com/repos/mozilla/geckodriver/releases

platform

A character vector of platform names

history

The maximum number of files to get for a platform

appname

Name of the app

fileregex

A filter for files

platformregex

A filter for platforms. Defaults to the platform

versionregex

A regex for retrieving the version.

Value

A named list of data.frames. The name indicates the platform. The data.frame should contain the version, url and file to be processed. Used as input for download_files or an equivalent.

Examples

## Not run: 
gadata <- system.file("testdata", "test_gitassets.json",
  package = "binman"
)
platform <- c("linux64", "win64", "macos")
gadllist <- predl_github_assets(
  url = gadata, platform, history = 3L,
  appname = "binman_chromedriver"
)

## End(Not run)