Hello!

I am gearing up to use rBLAST and I would like to download the core_nt BLAST database and keep it updated with BiocFileCache

I have the example from the vignette, but core_nt is a large number of tar.gz files from 00-68. The code to get them using wget does not work with 'blast_db_get'. What would be the proper code?

> tgz_file <- blast_db_get("core_nt.{00..68}.tar.gz")
Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) : 
  invalid regular expression 'core_nt.{00..68}.tar.gz', reason 'Invalid contents of {}'
In addition: Warning message:
In FUN(X[[i]], ...) :
  TRE pattern compilation error 'Invalid contents of {}'

If it isn't possible to download them with 'blast_db_get' then is there a way to import the files into a the cache? I am asking this because I think that it has a super easy explanation. I will keep reading. Thank you.

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.2 (2024-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS/LAPACK: /usr/local/lib/libopenblas_zenp-r0.3.18.so;  LAPACK version 3.9.0

locale:
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[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

time zone: America/Los_Angeles
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats4    stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
[8] base     

other attached packages:
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 [4] Biostrings_2.74.1    GenomeInfoDb_1.42.3  XVector_0.46.0      
 [7] IRanges_2.40.1       S4Vectors_0.44.0     BiocGenerics_0.52.0 
[10] BiocManager_1.30.25 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
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 [4] compiler_4.4.2          crayon_1.5.3            filelock_1.0.3         
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[10] R6_2.6.1                generics_0.1.3          curl_6.2.1             
[13] tibble_3.2.1            GenomeInfoDbData_1.2.13 DBI_1.2.3              
[16] pillar_1.10.1           rlang_1.1.5             cachem_1.1.0           
[19] bit64_4.6.0-1           RSQLite_2.3.9           memoise_2.0.1          
[22] cli_3.6.4               withr_3.0.2             magrittr_2.0.3         
[25] zlibbioc_1.52.0         lifecycle_1.0.4         vctrs_0.6.5            
[28] glue_1.8.0              purrr_1.0.4             httr_1.4.7             
[31] tools_4.4.2             pkgconfig_2.0.3         UCSC.utils_1.2.0