pkgfilecache: Download and Manage Optional Package Data

Manage optional data for your package. The data can be hosted anywhere, and you have to give a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for each file. File integrity checks are supported. This is useful for package authors who need to ship more than the 5 Megabyte of data currently allowed by the the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Download functions are supposed to be called by users in interactive sessions only.

Package details

AuthorTim Schäfer [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3683-8070>)
MaintainerTim Schäfer <ts+code@rcmd.org>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.4.1
URL https://github.com/dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("pkgfilecache")

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pkgfilecache documentation built on Sept. 1, 2026, 1:08 a.m.