Manage cache for BiocPkgTools — BiocPkgTools-cache • BiocPkgTools

Managing user data is important to allow use of email functions such as biocBuildEmail and made easy with BiocFileCache.

setCache(
  directory = tools::R_user_dir("BiocPkgTools", "cache"),
  verbose = TRUE,
  ask = interactive()
)

pkgToolsCache(...)

Arguments

directory: The file location where the cache is located. Once set future downloads will go to this folder.
verbose: Whether to print descriptive messages
ask: logical (default TRUE when interactive session) Confirm the file location of the cache directory
...: For pkgToolsCache, arguments are passed to setCache

pkgToolsCache

Get the directory location of the cache. It will prompt the user to create a cache if not already created. A specific directory can be used via setCache.

setCache

Specify the directory location of the data cache. By default, it will got to the user's home/.cache/R and "appname" directory as specified by tools::R_user_dir (with package="BiocPkgTools" and which="cache").