read_or_update_local_cache: Read the cached result of an expression from a locally cached...

In chambm/customProDB: Generate customized protein databases from NGS data for proteomics search

Description

Read the cached result of an expression from a locally cached file if it exists, else evaluate the expression, cache it, and return result.

Usage

read_or_update_local_cache(expression, local_cache_path, object_name)

Arguments

expression	The expression to be evaluated and returned if the cached result does not exist.
local_cache_path	The path that stores the cached objects. If NULL, no caching is performed.
object_name	The name of the object used to read/create the cache file.

Value

The result of evaluating the expression, either read from cache or from actually evaluating it.

Note

If evaluating the expression has side-effects, they will not happen if the result is returned from cache.

Examples

## Not run: 
read_or_update_local_cache(2+2, tempdir(), "TwoPlusTwo")

## End(Not run)

chambm/customProDB documentation built on May 31, 2019, 12:08 p.m.