get_archive_data: Download an archive file and unarchive its contents

In qtkit: Quantitative Text Kit

Download an archive file and unarchive its contents

Description

Possible file types include .zip, .gz, .tar, and .tgz

Usage

get_archive_data(url, target_dir, force = FALSE, confirmed = FALSE)

Arguments

url	A character vector representing the full url to the compressed file
target_dir	The directory where the archive file should be downloaded
force	An optional argument which forcefully overwrites existing data
confirmed	If TRUE, the user has confirmed that they have permission to use the data. If FALSE, the function will prompt the user to confirm permission. Setting this to TRUE is useful for reproducible workflows.

Value

NULL, the archive file is unarchived in the target directory

Examples

## Not run: 
data_dir <- file.path(tempdir(), "data")
url <-
 "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qtalr/qtkit/main/inst/extdata/test_data.zip"
get_archive_data(
 url = url,
 target_dir = data_dir,
 confirmed = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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