Sets the local maven repository location

This writes a maven repository location to a temporary settings.xml file which persists only for the R session. The location of the maven repository is either specified here, or can be defined by the options("rmaven.m2.repository"=...) option. If neither of these is provided, the location will revert to a default location within the rmaven cache. (Approved by CRAN for a local cache location) e.g. on 'Linux' this will default to ~/.cache/rmaven/.m2/repository/

set_repository_location(
  repository_location = getOption("rmaven.m2.repository", default = .working_dir(subpath
    = ".m2/repository/")),
  settings_path = .settings_path()
)

Arguments

repository_location

a file path (which will be expanded to a full path) where the repository should be based, e.g. ~/.m2/repository/. Defaults to a sub-directory of the rmaven cache.

settings_path

the file path of the settings.xml to update (generally the supplied default is what you want to use)

Value

the expanded path of the new repository location

Examples

# Setting the repository to be a temp dir as an example:
set_repository_location(paste0(tempdir(), "/.m2/repository"))
#> /tmp/Rtmp6N3Ds7/.m2/repository
# you would never want to do this in real life as then the maven repository
# would be rebuilt on every new R session.

# set the repository location to the usual location for Java development
# set_repository_location("~/.m2/repository")
# We don't run this above example as it creates an empty directory in the
# userspace and doing so in an example violates CRAN principles.

# set the repository location back to the CRAN approved default location
set_repository_location()
#> /home/runner/.cache/rmaven/.m2/repository