Downloads the TASSEL fat JAR (with all dependencies) from Maven Central and caches it locally. This only needs to be run once per TASSEL version. Subsequent package loads will use the cached JAR automatically.
Details
The JAR is downloaded from Maven Central at: https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/net.maizegenetics/tassel
Files are cached under the standard R user cache directory
(see R_user_dir) at
~/.cache/R/rTASSEL/java/<version>/ (Linux),
~/Library/Caches/org.R-project.R/R/rTASSEL/java/<version>/ (macOS),
or the equivalent on Windows.
A SHA-1 checksum is verified after download to ensure file integrity.
