Document PYTHIA_DATASETS_DIR in pythia_datasets package
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Datasets that are requested from pythia_datasets get stored in the user's .cache directory. Could we do something akin to what Cartopy does in terms of Natural Earth shapefiles, where one could define a different, networked-served directory?
The motivator here is for users who are running scripts or notebooks that use pythia_datasets but who may be logging into a networked-served Linux directory environment (such as in my department at UAlbany). Users' home directories, which is where the .cache directory sits, are limited to a mere 5GB of space.
@ktyle, users can override the default cache location by setting PYTHIA_DATASETS_DIR environment variable.
Ok great!!
Can we get this info into our user guides somewhere?
This issue was closed. Did we get an issue opened to document the PYTHIA_DATASETS_DIR env. variable?
No. Suggest just reopening and retitling this issue.
I opened a PR over on the pythia-datasets repo to address this.
@ktyle Do we need to put any info about this somewhere in the Foundations material?