simpleCache

0.5.0

Simply Caching R Objects

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6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nathan SheffieldFirst published 2017-08-216 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides intuitive functions for caching R objects, encouraging reproducible, restartable, and distributed R analysis. The user selects a location to store caches, and then provides nothing more than a cache name and instructions (R code) for how to produce the R object. Also provides some advanced options like environment assignments, recreating or reloading caches, and cluster compute bindings (using the 'batchtools' package) making it flexible enough for use in large-scale data analysis projects.

Install

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

install.packages("simpleCache", 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("databio/simpleCache")

Development version from databio/simpleCache. 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-simplecache

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-simpleCache

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-simpleCache

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR12OK

Failing flavors

ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.61

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-01
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ERROR2026-05-29
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,203 · ~17/day · ~503/mo

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32830 days

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6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ databio/simplecache

35Stars

6Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

251Commits

251 commits · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-05-17 · 332026-07-07 · 35

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,098 (56%)Rd 609 (31%)Vignettes 270 (14%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 40 max
Test cases: 15 / 0.61 per code line
Documented parameters: 100%

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

–

Functions

21 15 exported

Complexity

3.9 avg / 40 max

Call network

21 nodes / 20 edges

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Nathan Sheffield

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Nathan Sheffield

Author, Maintainer

VP Nagraj

Author

Release 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
0.5.0Latest
2026-03-01 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.3
2026-02-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
0.4.2
2021-04-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.1
2019-02-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.3.1
2017-08-22 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2017-08-21
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-21
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: BSD_2_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 45 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet