Download a file with progress and validation — download_file • dbpq

Download a file with progress and validation

Usage

download_file(url, dest_path, verbose = TRUE, timeout = Inf)

Arguments

url: The URL to download from.
dest_path: The local file path to save to.
verbose: Print progress messages.
timeout: (Numeric, default Inf) Timeout in seconds passed to utils::download.file() via options(timeout = ...) for the duration of the call. Inf disables the timeout, which is needed for multi-GB reference databases such as KSGP (>2 GB) and SILVA trainsets that take longer than R's 60-second default to download.

Value

The path to the downloaded file (invisibly).