Re: [Bioc-devel] Would it make sense for BiocManager::install to cache downloaded packages?

2020-11-14 Thread Vincent Carey
another helpful element -- to have an option to warn early on if the available space in R_TMPDIR value is not sufficiently large not sure how to do that portably but perhaps there is a way On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM Martin Morgan wrote: > FWIW BiocManager::install() really delegates to

Re: [Bioc-devel] Would it make sense for BiocManager::install to cache downloaded packages?

2020-11-14 Thread Vincent Carey
Could we think about a parameter use_unused_tarballs that automates this reduction in redownload effort? On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:52 PM Martin Morgan wrote: > FWIW BiocManager::install() really delegates to install.packages(). The > packages are downloaded to 'destdir=' as documented on