synGet

Gets a Synapse entity from the repository service.

synGet(entity)

Arguments

entity

A Synapse ID (e.g. syn123 or syn123.1, with .1 denoting version), a Synapse Entity object, a plain dictionary in which 'id' maps to a Synapse ID or a local file that is stored in Synapse (found by the file MD5)

version

Optional. The specific version to get. Defaults to the most recent version. If not denoted in the entity input.

downloadFile

Optional. Whether associated files(s) should be downloaded. Defaults to TRUE.

downloadLocation

Optional. Directory where to download the Synapse File Entity. Defaults to the local cache.

followLink

Optional. Whether the link returns the target Entity. Defaults to FALSE.

ifcollision

Optional. Determines how to handle file collisions. May be "overwrite.local", "keep.local", or "keep.both". Defaults to "keep.both".

limitSearch

Optional. A Synanpse ID used to limit the search in Synapse if entity is specified as a local file. That is, if the file is stored in multiple locations in Synapse only the ones in the specified folder/project will be returned.

md5

Optional. The MD5 checksum for the file, if known. Otherwise if the file is a local file, it will be calculated automatically.

Value

A new Synapse Entity object of the appropriate type.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## download file
file <- synGet('syn1906479')
print(file$properties$name)
print(file$path)

## download a specific version of a file
file <- synGet('syn1906479', version=1)
print(file$versionLabel)

## to access the file's metadata without downloading the file
file <- synGet("syn1906479", downloadFile = FALSE)
md5 <- file$get("md5")
}