hfhub is a minimal port of huggingface_hub that allows downloading files from Hugging Face Hub and caching them with the same structure used in the original implementation.
hfhub can be installed from CRAN with:
install.packages("hfhub")You can install the development version of hfhub like so:
remotes::install_github("mlverse/hfhub")hub_download the the only exported function in the
package and can be used to download and cache a file from any Hugging
Face Hub repository. It returns a path to the file.
library(hfhub)
path <- hub_download("gpt2", "config.json")
str(jsonlite::fromJSON(path))You can set the HUGGING_FACE_HUB_TOKEN environment
variable with the value of a token obtained in the Access Token section
of the Hugging Face account setting page. This will allow you to
download private files from Hugging Face Hub.