Caching http requests and CRAN policies

[dickoa]

Hi @sckott ,

Thanks for this great package, I started using and wanted to know if the following CRAN policy also apply to webmiddens or any other package to cache http requests:

Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). Installing into the system’s R installation (e.g., scripts to its bin directory) is not allowed.

Limited exceptions may be allowed in interactive sessions if the package obtains confirmation from the user.

Thanks again

cc @hrbrmstr

[sckott]

The pkg doesn't ask for permission from the user to write to disk. In tests/etc. we use temp directories, but for real usage files go to cache directories as sorted out by rappdirs.

[dickoa]

Thanks a lot for the clarification and thanks again for this package.
The ecosystem around crul is just awesome!

[sckott]

thanks! and thx for using the pkgs.