gets a file object

Usage

getFile(
  ident,
  from = pwd(),
  addAsLink = TRUE,
  caption = "",
  description = "",
  folderName = "data",
  addIdToName = T
)

ident: path, resource or entity ID of the file
from: used for relative paths, by default pwd is used, which is initiated with the step that started improveR
addAsLink: creates a link in inventory if TRUE, warn improveClean has to be run at the end
caption: by default entityID and lastmodified are the caption, here alternative text can be provided
description: by default filename is the caption, here alternative text can be provided
folderName: by default data the subfolder in the workspace where the file is created
addIdToName: by default T prepend the entity ID of the name to avoid collissions

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