R Observatory: Metrics for pkgfilecache version 0.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pkgfilecache

0.1.5

Download and Manage Optional Package Data

2packages depend

17.6Kdownloads / year

80.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Tim SchäferFirst published 2019-10-076 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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).

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

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

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.78

80.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 0%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

17.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,990 · ~48/day · ~1.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

79130 days

4.6K90 days

17.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on152 r2u4 autocran890 conda_forge31 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache

8Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

97Commits

1Contributors

rdeveloper-toolsfilestoragecrandownloadcachehome-directoryfiles

97 commits · Last activity 2024-02-02

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/dfsp-spirit/pkgfilecache on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsAppVeyor

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

downloader rappdirs curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

5indirect

freesurferformats fsbrain

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Tim Schäfer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Tim Schäfer

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
0.1.5Latest
2024-02-02 · current release · 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
2021-05-17 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2021-01-29 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.2
2019-11-29 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2019-10-14 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-10-07
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-07
Total releases: 6 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 25 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pkgfilecache")

Format

Schäfer, T. (2024). pkgfilecache: Download and Manage Optional Package Data (Version 0.1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pkgfilecache

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 pkgfilecache version 0.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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