geposanui/utils.R

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library(rlog)
#' Run a function caching the result on the file system.
#'
#' The function will be called with the appended arguments. The [`id`] argument
#' will be used to identify the cache file on the file system and in log
#' messages.
run_cached <- function(id, func, ...) {
if (!dir.exists("cache")) {
dir.create("cache")
}
cache_file <- paste("cache/", id, ".rds", sep = "")
if (file.exists(cache_file)) {
log_info(sprintf("Loading %s from cache", id))
# If the cache file exists, we restore the data from it.
readRDS(cache_file)
} else {
# If the cache file doesn't exist, we have to do the computation.
data <- func(...)
# The results are cached for the next run.
saveRDS(data, cache_file)
data
}
}