Manage Cached Files

Suite of tools for managing cached files, targeting use in other R packages. Uses 'rappdirs' for cross-platform paths. Provides utilities to manage cache directories, including targeting files by path or by key; cached directories can be compressed and uncompressed easily to save disk space.

Download and Cache Files Safely

The goal of dlr is to provide a friendly wrapper around the common pattern of downloading a file if that file does not already exist locally.

File System Cache

Manages a file system cache. Regular files can be moved or copied to the cache folder. Sub-folders can be created in order to organize the files. Files can be located inside the cache using a glob function. Text contents can be easily stored in and retrieved from the cache using dedicated functions. It can be used for an application or a package, as a global cache, or as a per-user cache, in which case the standard OS user cache folder will be used (e.g.: on Linux $HOME/.cache/R/my_app_or_pkg_cache_folder).

Fast and Light-Weight Caching (Memoization) of Objects and Results to Speed Up Computations

Memoization can be used to speed up repetitive and computational expensive function calls. The first time a function that implements memoization is called the results are stored in a cache memory. The next time the function is called with the same set of parameters, the results are momentarily retrieved from the cache avoiding repeating the calculations. With this package, any R object can be cached in a key-value storage where the key can be an arbitrary set of R objects. The cache memory is persistent (on the file system).

Access Files from 'Zenodo' Deposits

Access, download and locally cache files deposited on 'Zenodo' < https://zenodo.org>.

Hugging Face Hub Interface

Provides functionality to download and cache files from 'Hugging Face Hub' < https://huggingface.co/models>. Uses the same caching structure so files can be shared between different client libraries.

Miscellaneous Tools for Reproducible Research

Tools to load 'R' packages and automatically generate BibTeX files citing them as well as load and cache plain-text and 'Excel' formatted data stored on 'GitHub', and from other sources.

Function Mocking for Unit Testing

With the deprecation of mocking capabilities shipped with 'testthat' as of 'edition 3' it is left to third-party packages to replace this functionality, which in some test-scenarios is essential in order to run unit tests in limited environments (such as no Internet connection). Mocking in this setting means temporarily substituting a function with a stub that acts in some sense like the original function (for example by serving a HTTP response that has been cached as a file). The only exported function 'with_mock()' is modeled after the eponymous 'testthat' function with the intention of providing a drop-in replacement.

Read Excel Files

Import excel files into R. Supports '.xls' via the embedded 'libxls' C library < https://github.com/libxls/libxls> and '.xlsx' via the embedded 'RapidXML' C++ library < https://rapidxml.sourceforge.net/>. Works on Windows, Mac and Linux without external dependencies.

Solvers for Initial Value Problems of Differential Equations ('ODE', 'DAE', 'DDE')

Functions that solve initial value problems of a system of first-order ordinary differential equations ('ODE'), of partial differential equations ('PDE'), of differential algebraic equations ('DAE'), and of delay differential equations. The functions provide an interface to the FORTRAN functions 'lsoda', 'lsodar', 'lsode', 'lsodes' of the 'ODEPACK' collection, to the FORTRAN functions 'dvode', 'zvode' and 'daspk' and a C-implementation of solvers of the 'Runge-Kutta' family with fixed or variable time steps. The package contains routines designed for solving 'ODEs' resulting from 1-D, 2-D and 3-D partial differential equations ('PDE') that have been converted to 'ODEs' by numerical differencing.