Thomas Williams illuminates us on the caching process:
Caching in R Markdown is a valuable step to get your app, report or visualisation more production-ready. There are one or two potential issues to watch out for, especially when deploying a cache-enabled R Markdown file to a Shiny server – in this post I’ll go over some of these “gotchas”, and how you could address each one.
Click through for those three gotchas.