R Observatory: Metrics for filecacher version 0.2.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

filecacher

0.2.9Package record

File Cacher

0packages depend

2.9Kdownloads / year

83.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Or GadishCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The main functions in this package are with_cache() and cached_read(). The former is a simple way to cache an R object into a file on disk, using 'cachem'. The latter is a wrapper around any standard read function, but caches both the output and the file list info. If the input file list info hasn't changed, the cache is used; otherwise, the original files are re-read. This can save time if the original operation requires reading from many files, and/or involves lots of processing.

Changes in 0.2.9

Removed dependencies on fs, dplyr, readr in tests to pass CRAN package checks.
Fixed bug in file_cache() when suggested packages were not available.
Made explicit the dependency R (>= 4.1.0) due to use of new pipe |> in tests and examples.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("filecacher", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("orgadish/filecacher")

Development version from orgadish/filecacher. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-filecacher

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-filecacher

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-filecacher

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.9

READMEYes · 150 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.9Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,324 · ~8/day · ~246/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

26230 days

77290 days

2.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on68 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

orgadish/filecacher ↗Account: orgadish

2Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

68Commits

2Commit identities

68 commits · Last activity 2025-02-07

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/orgadish/filecacher on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing filecacher adds 11 packages (8 with compiled code, 3.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cachem glue here purrr rlangutilsvctrs

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

arrow data.table readr testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Or Gadish

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-01-19
0.2.9Latest
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2024-01-19 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2024-01-14
issues were not corrected in time Does not use 'arrow' conditionally
0.2.7
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2023-11-17 · diff ↗
0.2.5
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2023-11-13 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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2023-11-10 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2023-11-09
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-09
Total releases: 5 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 17 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("filecacher")

Format

Gadish, O. (2024). filecacher: File Cacher (Version 0.2.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.filecacher

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for filecacher version 0.2.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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