getWdltoolJar: Utility to fetch the wdltool JAR file

In seandavi/cRomwell: Interact with the Broad Institute Cromwell workflow manager

Description

This function simply downloads the wdltool JAR file and puts it in the destfile location. The JAR file is picked up from https://github.com/broadinstitute/wdltool/releases.

Usage

getWdltoolJar(wdltool_version, destfile = "wdltool.jar")

Arguments

wdltool_version	string representing the version number
destfile	string The full path to the wdltool jar file location on the local system

Details

A side-effect is that the environment variable, WDLTOOL_JAR will be set to the path to the downloaded jarfile.

Value

destfile location [invisibly]

See Also

See lots of details at https://github.com/broadinstitute/wdltool.

Examples

version = '0.8'
tmpfile = file.path(tempdir(),'wdltool.jar')
fp = getWdltoolJar(wdltool_version = version,
                   destfile = tmpfile)
fp
unlink(fp)

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