getExamplePath: getExamplePath

In REddyProc: Post Processing of (Half-)Hourly Eddy-Covariance Measurements

getExamplePath

Description

checks if example filename is existing and if not tries to download it.

Usage

getExamplePath(filename = "Example_DETha98.txt", 
    isTryDownload = FALSE, exampleDir = getREddyProcExampleDir(), 
    remoteDir = "")

Arguments

filename	the name of the example file
isTryDownload	scalar logical whether to try downloading the file to package or tmp directory. Because of CRAN checks, need to explicitly set to TRUE
exampleDir	directory where examples are looked up and downloaded to
remoteDir	the URL do download from

Details

Example input text data files are not distributed with the package, because it exceeds allowed package size. Rather, the example files will be downloaded when required from github by this function.

The remoteDir (github) must be reachable, and the writing directory must be writeable.

Value

the full path name to the example data or if not available an zero-length character. Allows to check for if (length(getExamplePath()) ) ...

Author(s)

Department for Biogeochemical Integration at MPI-BGC, Jena, Germany <[e-mail]> [cph], Thomas Wutzler <[e-mail]> [aut, cre], Markus Reichstein <[e-mail]> [aut], Antje Maria Moffat <[e-mail]> [aut, trl], Olaf Menzer <[e-mail]> [ctb], Mirco Migliavacca <[e-mail]> [aut], Kerstin Sickel <[e-mail]> [ctb, trl], Ladislav <U+0160>igut <[e-mail]> [ctb]

REddyProc documentation built on May 29, 2024, 12:10 p.m.