BiocFileCache
Bioc currentManage Files Across Sessions
Release Lineage
Entered 3.5 · Apr 25, 2017
Current · Requires R 4.6
Description
This package creates a persistent on-disk cache of files that the user can add, update, and retrieve. It is useful for managing resources (such as custom Txdb objects) that are costly or difficult to create, web resources, and data files used across sessions.
None published for Bioconductor
Test coverage
Line coverage
–
Expression
–
Tests / Examples
–
Functions
71 4 exported
Complexity
2.3 avg / 12 max
Call network
71 nodes / 134 edges
Test coverage is not measured for Bioconductor packages; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.
Call graph
Open call graph →Lowest coverage
Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.
Code
Structure
Lines of code
6,111
Files
28
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
28
Internal functions
7
Recent export changes
Testing
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.33
testthat edition
–
Docs
Roxygen coverage
100%
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
0
Dep constraint coverage
10%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
3.4.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
Artistic-2.0
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
19
First release
2017-06-20
Latest release
2026-04-28
Avg cadence
184 days
Cold removal rate
–
Dep drift
5
LOC over versions
Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/bioc-code-metrics.
Documentation
- Help pages
- 4
- Examples that run
- 100%4 run in a plain check
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 100%
- Return-value docs
- 75%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Repository practices
1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository
Checks run against github.com/bioconductor/biocfilecache on 2026-10-18.
GitHub Pages site
Topics
Depended on by (150)
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Bioconductor (149)
CRAN (1)
Suggested by (50)
People
- Lori Shepherd author maintainer
- Martin Morgan author
Cite
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