Should the backingfile and descriptorfile created by bigmemory by checked into version control?
I'm wondering what the best practices are for handling the descriptorfile (foo.desc) and backingfile (foo.bin) that are created when reading foo.csv using read.big.matrix(...)
As far as I can find out the backingfile is an RDS file by default, and the descriptorfile is a plain text file. So in theory those are both cross-platform and could be checked in, but my guess is that the backingfile will change a lot and should be ignored by version control. Does anyone have experience here?
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I'm wondering what the best practices are for handling the descriptorfile (foo.desc) and backingfile (foo.bin) that are created when reading foo.csv using read.big.matrix(...)
As far as I can find out the backingfile is an RDS file by default, and the descriptorfile is a plain text file. So in theory those are both cross-platform and could be checked in, but my guess is that the backingfile will change a lot and should be ignored by version control. Does anyone have experience here?
r gitignore r-bigmemory
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I'm wondering what the best practices are for handling the descriptorfile (foo.desc) and backingfile (foo.bin) that are created when reading foo.csv using read.big.matrix(...)
As far as I can find out the backingfile is an RDS file by default, and the descriptorfile is a plain text file. So in theory those are both cross-platform and could be checked in, but my guess is that the backingfile will change a lot and should be ignored by version control. Does anyone have experience here?
r gitignore r-bigmemory
asked Nov 20 '18 at 13:54
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I'm wondering what the best practices are for handling the descriptorfile (foo.desc) and backingfile (foo.bin) that are created when reading foo.csv using read.big.matrix(...)
As far as I can find out the backingfile is an RDS file by default, and the descriptorfile is a plain text file. So in theory those are both cross-platform and could be checked in, but my guess is that the backingfile will change a lot and should be ignored by version control. Does anyone have experience here?
r gitignore r-bigmemory
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The backingfile is not an RDS file. It is just a simple binary file and should be cross-platform.
It is generally not recommended to version binary files, because they change a lot. Moreover, this is a large file and so it's even less recommended.
The descriptor file is useless by itself.
So, I would recommend to not version those files.
The only case would if it's only small files that you use for examples (see e.g. https://github.com/privefl/bigstatsr/tree/master/inst/extdata).
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The backingfile is not an RDS file. It is just a simple binary file and should be cross-platform.
It is generally not recommended to version binary files, because they change a lot. Moreover, this is a large file and so it's even less recommended.
The descriptor file is useless by itself.
So, I would recommend to not version those files.
The only case would if it's only small files that you use for examples (see e.g. https://github.com/privefl/bigstatsr/tree/master/inst/extdata).
answered Nov 20 '18 at 14:56
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Thanks for the answer.
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The backingfile is not an RDS file. It is just a simple binary file and should be cross-platform.
It is generally not recommended to version binary files, because they change a lot. Moreover, this is a large file and so it's even less recommended.
The descriptor file is useless by itself.
So, I would recommend to not version those files.
The only case would if it's only small files that you use for examples (see e.g. https://github.com/privefl/bigstatsr/tree/master/inst/extdata).
answered Nov 20 '18 at 14:56
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Thanks for the answer.
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The backingfile is not an RDS file. It is just a simple binary file and should be cross-platform.
It is generally not recommended to version binary files, because they change a lot. Moreover, this is a large file and so it's even less recommended.
The descriptor file is useless by itself.
So, I would recommend to not version those files.
The only case would if it's only small files that you use for examples (see e.g. https://github.com/privefl/bigstatsr/tree/master/inst/extdata).
answered Nov 20 '18 at 14:56
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The backingfile is not an RDS file. It is just a simple binary file and should be cross-platform.
It is generally not recommended to version binary files, because they change a lot. Moreover, this is a large file and so it's even less recommended.
The descriptor file is useless by itself.
So, I would recommend to not version those files.
The only case would if it's only small files that you use for examples (see e.g. https://github.com/privefl/bigstatsr/tree/master/inst/extdata).
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Thanks for the answer.
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