pins: Pin, Discover and Share Resources

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.rstudio.com/blog/pin-discover-and-share-resources


Today we are excited to announce the pins package is available on CRAN! pins allows you to pin, discover and share remote resources, locally or in remote storage.
If you find yourself using download.file() or asking others to download files before running your R code, use pin() to achieve fast, simple and reliable reproducible research over remote resources.
Pins You can use the pins package to:
Pin remote resources locally to work offline and cache results with ease, pin() stores resources in boards which you can then retrieve with pin_get().