Function used to build a file path based on a cache folder

Parameters are similar to that of file.path function

Usage

cachePath(...)

Arguments

...

character vectors. Elements of the subpath of cache path

Value

A character vector of normalized file path with a source attribute holding a hint to cache path source ("option", "data", "temp")

Localisation

Cache path discovery protocol

1. BIOMASS.cache option set to an existing folder

2. existing user data folder rappdirs::user_data_dir()

   • On Linux : ~/.local/share/R/BIOMASS

   • On Mac OS X : ~/Library/Application Support/R/BIOMASS

   • On Windows 7 up to 10 : C:\\Users\\<username>\\AppData\\Local\\R\\BIOMASS

   • On Windows XP : C:\\Documents and Settings\\<username>\\Data\\R\\BIOMASS

3. fallback to R session tempdir