once: Execute Expensive Operations Only Once

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Execute Expensive Operations Only Once

Description

The once() function allows you to easily execute expensive compute operations only once, and save the resulting object to disk.

Usage

once(expr, file_path = NULL, rerun = FALSE)

Arguments

expr	The expensive expression to evaluate
file_path	File path for saving the output object as an Rds file. Note that if no file name is provided it will not save!
rerun	Rerun the expression anyway and save the result? Defaults to false.

Value

the results of expr

Examples

save_file <- tempfile(fileext = ".Rds")
 # temporary file path - replace with your preferred saved file path
my_out <-
  runif(1e8) %>% # some expensive operation
  mean() %>%
  once(file_path = save_file)
  # only do it once, save output to this file.

once documentation built on Sept. 1, 2022, 1:05 a.m.