[Bioc-devel] Including large files for the package

[Martin Grigorov]

Hello,

Perhaps you could use https://bioconductor.r-universe.dev/BiocFileCache to
download the big file on demand.
The benefit is that the file would be stored in ~/.cache/R/yourPackage/
(for Linux; something similar for Windows/Mac) and reused between sessions.

Regards,
Martin

On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 5:15 AM Ali Sajid Imami <ali.sajid.imami using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi BioConductor Team,
>
> I am a PhD Candidate in the Cognitive Disorders Research lab at the
> university of Toledo. I am responsible for a number of R packages and our
> intention is to submit them to bioconductor over the next several months. I
> had just submitted a package drugfindR (
> https://github.com/CogDisResLab/drugfindR). This was immediately closed as
> my repo had a single file over the 5MB limit.
>
> I wanted to ask both if you would reconsider/make an exception or guide me
> in the right direction.
>
> This package serves as a way to quickly learch through the LINCS data
> stored at the ilincs.org portal. The file in question is one of three
> metadata files that allows the package to function efficiently and without
> having to go through the expensive network requests. It would really be
> helpful if we could include the file as is. I do not expect more files like
> that to be added to the package at all.
>
> Barring that, I have seen the suggestion of using AnnotationHub or
> ExperimentHub. While I have gone through the documentation, I'm not
> entirely sure how those services work. Are those services where we can
> store the data itself or we are expected to host the data elsewhere and
> create lightweight "pointer" packages. Similarly, I'm not entirely sure
> which Hub this would go to.
>
> Any advice or guidance will be appreciated.
>
>
> Regards,
> Dr. Ali Sajid Imami
> LinkedIn <https://pk.linkedin.com/pub/ali-sajid-imami/50/956/2a6>
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