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A cache-directory helper that has shipped nothing but CRAN-triggered patches for seven years.

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◆Current state
hoardr manages local cache directories for other R packages — where files go, how they are keyed, whether they exist. It underpins caching in several rOpenSci data clients. The last functional additions were in 2018; everything since is a patch issued because CRAN reported a test failure or the maintainer changed.
◆Where it's heading
This is infrastructure that has reached its final shape. Three of the last three releases were reactive: two responses to CRAN test-failure notifications, one to a maintainer handover. The single behavioural change in that stretch — forward slashes in paths on every operating system — is a consistency fix for downstream packages rather than a feature. Its release cadence is set by CRAN's checks, not by demand.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to be triggered by another CRAN check failure rather than by new functionality, matching every release since 2018.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1y ago

    Paths use forward slashes on every platform

    A CRAN-prompted patch whose one real change makes path separators consistent across operating systems. Downstream packages comparing cache paths benefit; nothing else changes.

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  2. 2y ago

    Test-only patch for a CRAN failure

    The notes state explicitly that no functionality or documentation changed. A release that exists to keep the package on CRAN.

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  3. 3y ago

    Patch release for maintainer handover

    Issued solely because the project's maintainer changed. No code change at all.

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  4. 7y ago

    Fixes cache paths leaking between HoardClient instances

    A genuine correctness bug: multiple clients in one session shared a cache path through an environment. Moving it to a private R6 variable is the last substantive fix the package has made.

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  5. 7y ago

    File-existence checks and full-path cache configuration

    The last feature release, adding a method to test whether cached files exist and a way to set the cache path directly instead of composing it from three parts. Everything after this is maintenance.

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  6. 9y ago

    CRAN disk-writing policy compliance

    An early adjustment to CRAN's rules on writing to a user's disk, plus small fixes. The pattern of CRAN setting this package's agenda starts here.

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