R Observatory: Metrics for pkgfilecache version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgfilecache

0.4.1Package record

Download and Manage Optional Package Data

2packages depend

16Kdownloads / year

92.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim SchäferCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Manage optional data for your package. The data can be hosted anywhere, and you have to give a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for each file. File integrity checks are supported. This is useful for package authors who need to ship more than the 5 Megabyte of data currently allowed by the the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). Download functions are supposed to be called by users in interactive sessions only.

Install

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

install.packages("pkgfilecache", 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("dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache")

Development version from dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache. 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-pkgfilecache

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-pkgfilecache

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-pkgfilecache

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: 1.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-23
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileNo

Help pages: 27 (13 internal)
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 13%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

pkgfilecache: Manage optional data for GNU R packages HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

16K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,133 · ~44/day · ~1.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

3.9K90 days

16K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on216 r2u1 autocran1K conda_forge56 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache ↗Account: dfsp-spirit

8Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

143Commits

2Commit identities

rdeveloper-toolsfilestoragecrandownloadcachehome-directoryfiles

143 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,066
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-07-09 · 62026-09-01 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache 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

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Automation and maintenance (1)

Renovate

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pkgfilecache adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 725 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: curl 714 KB, rappdirs 11 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

rappdirs curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

5indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

freesurferformats fsbrain

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Tim Schäfer

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2019)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.4.1Latest
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2026-08-31 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
ensure_files_available_from_manifest, manifest_cli, manifest_script, read_manifest, write_manifest_from_dir
R
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
0.2.0
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2024-02-02 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2024-02-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.4
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2021-05-17 · diff ↗
0.1.3
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2021-01-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.2
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2019-11-29 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2019-10-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
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2019-10-07
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-07
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 47 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgfilecache")

Format

Schäfer, T. (2026). pkgfilecache: Download and Manage Optional Package Data (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgfilecache

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

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for pkgfilecache version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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