Download generic data — generic_downloadData • PWFSLSmoke

This function takes a location to a delimited file, gets the file, and returns a string containing the file data.

generic_downloadData(filePath)

Arguments

filePath	Either a path to a file, or a connection (`http(s)://`, `ftp(s)://`).

Value

A character vector of length 1, containing data from the file located at filePath.

Details

This function is essentailly a wrapper for read_file.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
# Fail gracefully if any resources are not available
try({

# make current directory PWFSLSmoke package directory
filePath <- "./localData/airsis_ebam_example-clean.csv"

fileString <- generic_downloadData(filePath)

}, silent = FALSE)
}