alink: Return a Link To Download an Artifact Stored on Remote...

In archivist: Tools for Storing, Restoring and Searching for R Objects

Description

alink returns a link to download an artifact from the Remote Repository. Artifact has to be already archived on GitHub, e.g with archive function archivist.github package (recommended) or saveToRepo function and traditional Git manual synchronization. To learn more about artifacts visit archivist-package.

Usage

alink(
  md5hash,
  repo = aoptions("repo"),
  user = aoptions("user"),
  subdir = aoptions("subdir"),
  branch = "master",
  repoType = aoptions("repoType"),
  format = "markdown",
  rawLink = FALSE
)

Arguments

md5hash	A character assigned to the artifact through the use of a cryptographical hash function with MD5 algorithm. If it is specified in a format of 'repo/user/md5hash' then user and repo parameters are omitted.
repo	The Remote Repository on which the artifact that we want to download is stored.
user	The name of a user on whose Repository the the artifact that we want to download is stored.
subdir	A character containing a name of a directory on the Remote repository on which the Repository is stored. If the Repository is stored in the main folder on the Remote repository, this should be set to subdir = "/" as default.
branch	A character containing a name of the Remote Repository's branch on which the Repository is archived. Default branch is master.
repoType	A character containing a type of the remote repository. Currently it can be 'github' or 'bitbucket'.
format	In which format the link should be returned. Possibilites are markdown (default) or latex.
rawLink	A logical denoting whether to return raw link or a link in the format convention. Default value is FALSE.

Details

For more information about md5hash see md5hash.

Value

This function returns a link to download artifact that is archived on GitHub.

Contact

Bug reports and feature requests can be sent to https://github.com/pbiecek/archivist/issues

Author(s)

Marcin Kosinski, [e-mail]

See Also

Other archivist: Repository, Tags, %a%(), addHooksToPrint(), addTagsRepo(), aformat(), ahistory(), aoptions(), archivist-package, areadLocal(), aread(), asearchLocal(), asearch(), asession(), atrace(), cache(), copyLocalRepo(), createLocalRepo(), createMDGallery(), deleteLocalRepo(), getRemoteHook(), getTagsLocal(), loadFromLocalRepo(), md5hash, removeTagsRepo(), restoreLibs(), rmFromLocalRepo(), saveToLocalRepo(), searchInLocalRepo(), setLocalRepo(), shinySearchInLocalRepo(), showLocalRepo(), splitTagsLocal(), summaryLocalRepo(), zipLocalRepo()

Examples

## Not run: 
# link in markdown format
alink('pbiecek/archivist/134ecbbe2a8814d98f0c2758000c408e')
# link in markdown format with additional subdir
alink(user='BetaAndBit',repo='PieczaraPietraszki',
     md5hash = '1569cc44e8450439ac52c11ccac35138', 
     subdir = 'UniwersytetDzieci/arepo')
# link in latex format
alink(user = 'MarcinKosinski', repo = 'Museum',
      md5hash = '1651caa499a2b07a3bdad3896a2fc717', format = 'latex')
# link in raw format
alink('pbiecek/graphGallery/f5185c458bff721f0faa8e1332f01e0f', rawLink = TRUE)  
alink('pbiecek/graphgallerygit/02af4f99e440324b9e329faa293a9394', repoType='bitbucket')  

## End(Not run)

archivist documentation built on May 20, 2021, 5:08 p.m.