Streamlined Interface to Interact with Cloud Storage Platforms
Overview
A unified interface for simplifying cloud storage interactions, including uploading, downloading, reading, and writing files, with functions for both 'Google Drive' (https://www.google.com/drive/) and 'Amazon S3' (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/).
- Updated
cloud_object_ls()to support paths containing spaces. - Improved various sections of the documentation.
- Enabled multipart upload for S3 writing and uploading functions, with the
default part size of 100 MB.
From NEWS.md in the release
Install
Health
NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64
Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
|> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
File(s) using such syntax:
‘cloud_drive_download_bulk.Rd’ ‘cloud_drive_read_bulk.Rd’
‘cloud_drive_upload_bulk.Rd’ ‘cloud_drive_write_bulk.Rd’
‘cloud_s3_download_bulk.Rd’ ‘cloud_s3_read_bulk.Rd’
‘cloud_s3_upload_bulk.Rd’ ‘cloud_s3_write_bulk.Rd’r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64
Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
|> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
File(s) using such syntax:
'cloud_drive_download_bulk.Rd' 'cloud_drive_read_bulk.Rd'
'cloud_drive_upload_bulk.Rd' 'cloud_drive_write_bulk.Rd'
'cloud_s3_download_bulk.Rd' 'cloud_s3_read_bulk.Rd'
'cloud_s3_upload_bulk.Rd' 'cloud_s3_write_bulk.Rd'- NOTE13 NOTENow
- NOTE3 OK, 11 NOTE2026-03-10
Documentation
- Help pages
- 47 (20 internal)includes a package overview page
- Examples that run
- 100%27 run in a plain check (23 of them under a condition)
- Exported functions with examples
- 100%
- Documented parameters
- 99%
- Return-value docs
- 100%
- Help pages citing references
- 0%
Downloads
Repository
- PRs merged (all time)
- 100%
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
- 16
- Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
- 7
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Dependencies
Installing cloudfs adds 34 packages (22 with compiled code, 13 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: googledrive 1.5 MB, fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB.
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2023-10-18
- Total releases
- 2 / 3 yrs
- License
- MIT + file LICENSE OSI
- Download size
- 166 KB
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