getExamplePath

checks if example filename is existing and if not tries to download it.

getExamplePath(filename = "Example_DETha98.txt", 
    isTryDownload = FALSE, exampleDir = getREddyProcExampleDir(), 
    remoteDir = "")

Arguments

filename

the name of the example file

isTryDownload

scalar logical whether to try downloading the file to package or tmp directory. Because of CRAN checks, need to explicitly set to TRUE

exampleDir

directory where examples are looked up and downloaded to

remoteDir

the URL do download from

Details

Example input text data files are not distributed with the package, because it exceeds allowed package size. Rather, the example files will be downloaded when required from github by this function.

The remoteDir (github) must be reachable, and the writing directory must be writeable.

Value

the full path name to the example data or if not available an zero-length character. Allows to check for if (length(getExamplePath()) ) ...

Author

Department for Biogeochemical Integration at MPI-BGC, Jena, Germany <REddyProc-help@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [cph], Thomas Wutzler <twutz@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [aut, cre], Markus Reichstein <mreichstein@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [aut], Antje Maria Moffat <antje.moffat@bgc.mpg.de> [aut, trl], Olaf Menzer <omenzer@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [ctb], Mirco Migliavacca <mmiglia@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [aut], Kerstin Sickel <ksickel@bgc-jena.mpg.de> [ctb, trl], Ladislav <U+0160>igut <sigut.l@czechglobe.cz> [ctb]