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").