[Bioc-devel] BiocFileCache for developers

[Michael Love]

hi,

I'm writing a function which currently uses BiocFileCache to store a
small data.frame and one or more TxDb objects, so that these objects
are persistent and available across sessions (or possible available to
multiple users).

In the simplest case, I would call

bfc <- BiocFileCache()

inside my function, which will check the default location:

user_cache_dir(appname = "BiocFileCache")

In general, should developers also support the user specifying a
specific location for the BiocFileCache? So functions using
BiocFileCache should have an argument that overrides the above
location?

thanks,
Mike