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Download the photon executable from GitHub.

Usage

download_photon(
  path = ".",
  version = NULL,
  opensearch = FALSE,
  only_url = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

path

Path to a directory to store the executable.

version

Version tag of the photon release. If NULL, downloads the latest known version.

opensearch

If TRUE, downloads the OpenSearch version of photon if available. OpenSearch versions are available for photon >= 0.6.0.

only_url

If TRUE, performs a download. Otherwise, only returns a link to the file.

quiet

If TRUE, suppresses all informative messages.

Value

If only_url = FALSE, returns a character string giving the path to the downloaded file. Otherwise, returns the URL to be downloaded.

Examples

download_photon(tempdir(), version = "0.4.1")
#>  Fetching photon 0.4.1.
#>  Successfully downloaded photon 0.4.1. [760ms]
#> 
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmpFN470Q/photon-0.4.1.jar"