So having a user argument might be best. Or defining a unique cache location for your package would be another option.
Lori Shepherd Bioconductor Core Team Roswell Park Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Elm & Carlton Streets Buffalo, New York 14263 ________________________________ From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-boun...@r-project.org> on behalf of Sean Davis <seand...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, December 1, 2017 11:06:39 AM To: Michael Love Cc: bioc-devel@r-project.org Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] BiocFileCache for developers On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Michael Love <michaelisaiahl...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, > > I'm writing a function which currently uses BiocFileCache to store a > small data.frame and one or more TxDb objects, so that these objects > are persistent and available across sessions (or possible available to > multiple users). > > In the simplest case, I would call > > bfc <- BiocFileCache() > > inside my function, which will check the default location: > > user_cache_dir(appname = "BiocFileCache") > > In general, should developers also support the user specifying a > specific location for the BiocFileCache? So functions using > BiocFileCache should have an argument that overrides the above > location? > On some systems, the user home directory is not large (such as on HPC systems) or has strong quotas. The default user_cache_dir may not be the best choice there. Sean > > thanks, > Mike > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel > -- Sean Davis, MD, PhD Center for Cancer Research National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD 20892 https://seandavi.github.io/ https://twitter.com/seandavis12 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel This email message may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for the delivery of this message to the intended recipient(s), you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of this email message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by e-mail and delete this email message from your computer. Thank you. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
