Is it possible to change the path for downloading the remote bw files?

[Codezy99]

Hi Lawremi,

thanks for the super cool package. I am trying to do an analysis across the whole TCGA data set, so I am heavily using the import.bw function. The default path for store the remote bw is /tmp/udcCache. But now the data getting bigger and bigger, my home directory do not have enough space for all the bw files. So I was wondering if it is possible to change the path for the remote bw storage? Thanks : )

Best regards,
You

[sanchit-saini]

Hi @Codezy99,

Value of default cache directory can be update with the

path <- "/any/path"
.Call(rtracklayer:::R_setUserUdcDir, path)

Note: To use a custom cache directory properly. Every time after loading rtracklayer, A call should be made to set the new cache directory path otherwise, it would fall back to using the default.

[Codezy99]

@sanchit-saini thanks a lot!