download_photon: Download photon

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Download photon

Description

Download the photon executable from GitHub.

Usage

download_photon(
  path = tempdir(),
  version = NULL,
  opensearch = TRUE,
  only_url = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

path	Path to a directory to store the executable. Defaults to tempdir().
version	Version tag of the photon release. If NULL, downloads the latest known version (1.0.0). A list of all releases can be found here: https://github.com/komoot/photon/releases/. Ignored if jar is given.
opensearch	If TRUE, downloads the OpenSearch version of photon if available. OpenSearch versions are available for photon >= 0.6.0. Since photon >= 0.7.0, OpenSearch versions are recommended. Defaults to TRUE.
only_url	If TRUE, performs a download. Otherwise, only returns a link to the file.
quiet	If TRUE, suppresses all informative messages.

Value

If only_url = FALSE, returns a character string giving the path to the downloaded file. Otherwise, returns the URL to be downloaded.

Examples

download_photon(tempdir(), version = "0.4.1", opensearch = FALSE)

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