Caching

hoardr is a client for caching files and managing those files. You can definitely achieve the same tasks without a separate pacakge, and there’s a number of packages for caching various objects in R already. However, I didn’t think there was a tool for that did everything I needed. The use cases I typically need hoardr for are when dealing with large files, either text (e.g., csv) or binary (e.g., shp) files that would be nice to not make the user of packages I maintain download again if they already have the file. This makes the server’s life easier that’s serving the files and makes work faster for the user of my package. ...