Utility to fetch the cromwell JAR file

The purpose of this R package is to interact with the Broad Cromwell execution engine. The Cromwell server is contained in a JAVA JAR file. This function simply downloads the cromwell JAR file and puts it in the destfile location. The JAR file is picked up from https://github.com/broadinstitute/cromwell/releases.

getCromwellJar(cromwell_version, destfile = file.path(tempdir(),
  "cromwell.jar"))

Arguments

cromwell_version	string representing the version number
destfile	string The full path to the cromwell jar file location on the local system

Value

destfile location [invisibly]

See also

See lots of details at https://github.com/broadinstitute/cromwell.

Examples

version = '24'
tmpfile = file.path(tempdir(),'cromwell.jar')
fp = getCromwellJar(cromwell_version = version)
fp
#> [1] "/var/folders/21/b_rp6qyj1_b1j5cp8qby0tnr0000gn/T//RtmpyDOzOn/cromwell.jar"
unlink(fp)