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.
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/RtmpHZmOWr/rdocdump_cache
# default cache directory
unlink(getOption("rdocdump.cache_path"), recursive = TRUE)