R Observatory: Metrics for tinycache version 0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinycache

0.1Package record

Cache Objects in Disk or Memory

0packages depend

528downloads / year

83.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mauricio Vargas SepulvedaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Reuse objects with a long processing time either by storing those in disk or memory. Uses caching to identify R objects (e.g., data frames, plots, etc.) and allows repeated access to those. Created with the specific goal of skipping the waiting time for summary tables obtained from large 'SQL' tables. It is extensible to other uses, such as caching plots in 'Tabler' dashboards to reduce waiting times.

Install

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

install.packages("tinycache", 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("pachadotdev/tinycache")

Development version from pachadotdev/tinycache. 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-tinycache

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-tinycache

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-tinycache

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK6 OK2026-08-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1

READMEYes · 71 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 40%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

528

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,728 · ~1/day · ~44/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19830 days

52890 days

5281 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on34 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pachadotdev/tinycache ↗Account: pachadotdev

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

7Commits

1Commit identities

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 7 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-08-08 · 02026-08-12 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pachadotdev/tinycache on 2026-10-11.

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-31

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tinycache adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 203 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: cpp4r 203 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (1)

utils

LinkingTo (1)

cpp4r

Suggests (1)

tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Mauricio Vargas Sepulveda

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.1Latest
record
first seen 2026-08-07 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-08-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 10 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("tinycache")

Format

Vargas Sepulveda, M. (2026). tinycache: Cache Objects in Disk or Memory (Version 0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.tinycache

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 tinycache version 0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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