We are in process of making some major updates to the caching in BiocFileCache,
AnnotationHub, and ExperimentHub. Namely, the default caching location will
change from using rappdirs::user_cache_dir to using tools::R_user_dir
eventually relieving the dependency on rappdirs. To avoid conflicting default
caches, if anyone used an old default caching directory, there will be an error
to decide how to deal with the old location before proceeding and documentation
in the vignettes for how to resolve. Currently I have update BiocFileCache,
the changes were just pushed to the devel branch and should propagate tonight.
I plan on doing the same for both AnnotationHub and ExperimentHub within the
next few days. We appreciate any feedback or questions with regards to these
updates.
This is only relevant to using the default cache location, if a user manually
specified a unique location, used environment variables, or created a package
specific cache the code/location is not affected. Anyone using package
specific caching that utilizes rappdirs is encouraged also to consider changing
package code to use the now available function in tools.
Cheers,
Lori Shepherd
Bioconductor Core Team
Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
Elm & Carlton Streets
Buffalo, New York 14263
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