gs_data_dir_local

Get a local path to the contents of Google Storage bucket

Description

Provides a local filesystem interface to Google Storage buckets. Many package functions accept only local filesystem paths as input (rather than gs:// URLs). For these cases the gcloud_path() function will synchronize gs:// buckets to the local filesystem and provide a local path interface to their contents.

Usage

 
gs_data_dir_local(url, local_dir = "gs", echo = FALSE)

Arguments

Arguments	Description
url	Google Storage bucket URL (e.g. `gs://<your-bucket>`).
local_dir	Local directory to synchonize Google Storage bucket(s) to.
echo	Echo command output to console.

Details

If you pass a local path as the url it will be returned unmodified. This allows you to for example use a training flag for the location of data which points to a local directory during development and a Google Cloud bucket during cloud training.

Value

Local path to contents of bucket.

Note

For APIs that accept gs:// URLs directly (e.g. TensorFlow datasets) you should use the gs_data_dir() function.