BACKLOG.md

In rappster/cachefun: Functions with built-in cache

cachefun 0.1.0

• BLI-1: carefully think about default setting of refresh.

Really depends on the most frequent use case: avoid unnecessary re-executions of long-running functions (probably mostly linked to data I/O and data wrangling) or avoid confusion through forgetting to refresh cached results.

It's probably best to go with refresh = TRUE here.

• BLI-2: is context information via .verbose really that relevant?

Adds clarity, but hurts performance and I don't like the current implementation of .verbose in the shiny::reactive.

• BLI-3: find out what would be best practice regarding setting defaults arg values in inner function returned by caf_create

• BLI-4: understand where the cached information is actually stored and how it can be purged (to allow explicit purges/removals like via rm)

cachefun 0.1.1

• BLI-5: should ... that is passed to inner function be moved to the front of formal arguments of caf_create? Would allow for a more natural usage experience and probably also required for compatibility with the tidyverse/piping paradigm

• BLI-6: implement features that allow ones function's cache to observe the cache of another functions (i.e. classical shiny observer/reactive scenario including invalidation, etc.)

• BLI-7: do we need some options for strictness? E.g. return warning or error if cache is still empty but refesh = FALSE? Think about this a bit more before going ahead with any implementation

cachefun 0.1.2

• BLI-8: there are probably better ways to implement observable dependencies (see arg observes in caf_create). Check shiny internals and/or ask for help from community

rappster/cachefun documentation built on May 8, 2019, 6:50 p.m.