download_vcf: Download a remote VCF file and its index file

In RajLabMSSM/downloadR: echoverse module: Single- and multi-threaded downloading functions

Download a remote VCF file and its index file

Description

Download a remote VCF file and its index file

Usage

download_vcf(
  vcf_url,
  vcf_dir = tempdir(),
  download_method = "download.file",
  force_new = FALSE,
  quiet = TRUE,
  nThread = 1
)

Arguments

vcf_url	Remote URL to VCF file.
vcf_dir	Where to download VCF file.
download_method	"axel" : Multi-threaded "wget" : Single-threaded "download.file" : Single-threaded "internal" : Single-threaded (passed to download.file) "wininet" : Single-threaded (passed to download.file) "libcurl" : Single-threaded (passed to download.file) "curl" : Single-threaded (passed to download.file)
force_new	Overwrite a previously downloaded VCF with the same path name.
quiet	Run quietly.
nThread	Number of threads to parallelize over.

Value

List containing the paths to the downloaded VCF and its index file.

Examples

vcf_url <- "https://gwas.mrcieu.ac.uk/files/ieu-a-298/ieu-a-298.vcf.gz"
out_paths <- download_vcf(vcf_url = vcf_url)

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