Communicate progress of getting/downloading operations ⏳

[arthur-shaw]

Objective

Communicate progress to the end user for long-running processes.

Two canonical examples:

• Downloading data
• Getting data in chunks

Tasks

Research

• [ ] Research progress tools (e.g., progressr)
• [ ] Research console communication tools (e.g., cli, ui_* functions in usethis)

Refactor

• [ ] For download functions, provide % downloaded
• [ ] For getting functions, provide % of all records gotten

Related issues

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[arthur-shaw]

This would be useful in a few areas:

• Shiny apps that report % progress to users
• Console updates

This is priority due to the number of projects that would benefit from this.