steveneschrich/ido: Indirect Data Object Management

A common problem with R in practice is that CRAN and other sites (including github) limit the size of a package. When considering really large datasets, or potentially controlled access datasets, the data package approach does not work well. There are a variety of solutions, including drat and stashr, which offer alternatives. Here, we provide a lightweight package that uses indirection (in the form of a configuration file) to redirect a typical data command to a secondary URL.

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("steveneschrich/ido")