Get a Local Copy of a File

Usage

getCopy(ident, from = pwd(), caption = "", description = "", refresh = FALSE)

Arguments

ident: Path, resource, or entity ID of the file.
from: Used for relative paths. By default, pwd is used (initiated with the step that started improveR).
caption: By default, entity ID and last modified are the caption; alternative text can be provided here.
description: By default, the filename is the description; alternative text can be provided here.
refresh: If TRUE, invalidate cached file content and resource metadata for ident before fetching. Defaults to FALSE.

Value

A data frame with one row per file, holding caption, path (the absolute path of the local copy), entityId, name, description and the resource itself in resource. NULL when ident resolves to nothing usable - the get functions accept only files and links, and anything else is logged and skipped.

References

ics1141