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Externalize large artifact

Source: R/retention.R
externalize_artifact.Rd

Moves a large artifact to an external RDS file and replaces the in-memory object with a pointer containing metadata about the externalized file.

Usage

externalize_artifact(artifact, artifacts_dir, task_id, field_name)

Arguments

artifact

An R object to externalize

artifacts_dir

Directory path where artifacts should be stored

task_id

Task identifier used to construct the filename

field_name

Name of the field being externalized (e.g., "draws", "fit")

Value

A list with pointer information containing:

  • external: TRUE (indicating this is an external pointer)

  • path: Full path to the external file

  • hash: Hash of the artifact for integrity checking

  • size: Size of the artifact in bytes

See also

write_rds_atomic(), compute_hash()