Progress bar for downloads with get_data

[AldoCompagnoni]

Can we devise a progress bar to show progress when downloading data sets using get_data?

[bochocki]

The "progress" package may be helpful here. From the docs (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/progress/progress.pdf)

Tokens
They can be used in the format argument when creating the progress bar.

:bar The progress bar itself.
:current Current tick number.
:total Total ticks.
:elapsed Elapsed time in seconds.
:eta Estimated completion time in seconds.
:percent Completion percentage.
:rate Download rate, bytes per second. See example below.
:bytes Shows :current, formatted as bytes. Useful for downloads or file reads if you don’t know
the size of the file in advance. See example below.
:spin Shows a spinner that updates even when progress is advanced by zero.

Custom tokens are also supported, and you need to pass their values to progress_bar$tick() or
progress_bar$update(), in a named list. See example below.