Set rdocdump Cache Path in the Current R Session — rdd_set_cache

This function sets the cache path used by rdocdump to store temporary files (downloaded tar.gz archives and/or extracted directories) for the current R session. The cache path is stored in the option "rdocdump.cache_path", which can be checked with getOption("rdocdump.cache_path"). The path is created if it does not exist.

Usage

rdd_set_cache_path(path)

Arguments

path: A character string specifying the directory to be used as the cache path.

Value

Invisibly returns the new cache path.

Examples

# set cache directory for `rdocdump`
rdd_set_cache_path(paste0(tempdir(), "/rdocdump_cache"))
#> rdocdump.cache_path set to: /tmp/RtmpoeRqAr/rdocdump_cache
# default cache directory
unlink(getOption("rdocdump.cache_path"), recursive = TRUE)