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% Please edit documentation in R/fetch.R
\name{fetch_metadata}
\alias{fetch_metadata}
\title{Download the Showcase metadata folder}
\usage{
fetch_metadata(dest_dir, overwrite = FALSE, resume = FALSE, verbose = TRUE)
}
\arguments{
\item{dest_dir}{(character) Destination directory. Created automatically
if it does not exist.}

\item{overwrite}{(logical) Overwrite existing local files. Default:
\code{FALSE}.}

\item{resume}{(logical) Resume interrupted downloads. Default: \code{FALSE}.}

\item{verbose}{(logical) Show download progress. Default: \code{TRUE}.}
}
\value{
Invisibly returns the local file paths as a character vector.
}
\description{
Downloads the entire \code{Showcase metadata/} folder from the DNAnexus
Research Analysis Platform to a local directory. This includes
\code{field.tsv}, \code{encoding.tsv}, and all associated encoding tables.
}
\examples{
\dontrun{
fetch_metadata(dest_dir = "metadata")
fetch_metadata(dest_dir = "metadata", overwrite = TRUE)
}
}
