At least one Repository must be initialized before using
other functions from the archivist package. When
working in groups, it is highly recommended to create a
Repository on a shared Dropbox/Git folder.All artifacts desired to be archived are going to be saved
in the local Repository, which is an SQLite database stored
in a file named backpack
. After calling
saveToRepo
function, every artifact will be archived
in a md5hash.rda
file. This file will be saved in a
folder (under repoDir
directory) named
gallery
. For every artifact, md5hash
is a
unique string of length 32 that comes out as a result of
digest function, which uses a
cryptographical MD5 hash algorithm.
To learn more about artifacts visit
archivist-package.
Created backpack
database is a useful and
fundamental tool for remembering artifact's name
,
class
, archiving date
etc. (that are
remembered as Tags), or for keeping artifact's
md5hash
.
Besides the backpack
database, gallery
folder
is created in which all artifacts will be archived.
After every saveToRepo
call the database is
refreshed, so an artifact is available immediately in
backpack.db
database for other collaborators.