R devel - Jun 2008 - Questions about building R extensions from C, data/ and man/, sbml file

Hi,

I am building the package in R using
>R CMD build -force ./mypackage
and check it using
>R CMD check ./mypackage
However I have a problem when running the examples in the manual files. The
problem is that I used a specifice type of file that is not table, thus I
guess data() can't be use to indicate the use of that particular file in the
directory data/. Do you have any idea how I can pass the name of this data
file as a string into the arguments of my function

e.g. in abc.Rd
\Examples{
ss<- abc(fname = "xxx.sbml")
}
where xxx.sbml is a file in the data/ directory.

Again, thanks very much and looking forwards to your reply.

Phan Hang

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Use system.file().  But please don't put your files in the data directory: 
as the manual says.

   The data subdirectory is for additional data files the package makes
   available for loading using data().

So if you put your data files in inst/sbml, your example becomes

abc(fname = system.file(package="mypackage", "sbml",
"xxx.sbml"))

since this will be mypackage/sbml/xxx.sbml when installed.

There are several examples on CRAN, e.g. rgdal.


On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, Hang PHAN wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am building the package in R using
>
>> R CMD build -force ./mypackage
>
> and check it using
>
>> R CMD check ./mypackage
>
> However I have a problem when running the examples in the manual files. The
> problem is that I used a specifice type of file that is not table, thus I
> guess data() can't be use to indicate the use of that particular file
in the
> directory data/. Do you have any idea how I can pass the name of this data
> file as a string into the arguments of my function
>
> e.g. in abc.Rd
> \Examples{
> ss<- abc(fname = "xxx.sbml")
> }
> where xxx.sbml is a file in the data/ directory.
>
> Again, thanks very much and looking forwards to your reply.
>
> Phan Hang
>
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>
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