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.