Thanks, it works now! I accidentally chose the wrong folder, sorry for that.
Now, if anyone could comment on the "hidden vs. non-hidden dataset"
part of
my questions he/she'd make my day ;-)
Regards,
Janko
> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Rowe, Brian - Eqty NY [mailto:b.rowe at baml.com]
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2010 21:35
> An: Janko Thyson
> Betreff: RE: [Rd] Including data in packages
>
> Janko,
>
> You have to save the data objects you want into that directory in your
> source package. Then when you build/install it will be there.
>
> Regards,
> Brian
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-devel-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-devel-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Janko Thyson
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 3:28 PM
> To: 'Dirk Eddelbuettel'
> Cc: 'r-devel at r-project. org'
> Subject: Re: [Rd] Including data in packages
>
> Hi Dirk,
>
> thanks for the quick reply. So all datasets, regardless if they should
> be
> hidden from the user, should go into /data? If that's the convention,
> that's
> fine with me. But the problem is that there is no data-directory in
> R_HOME/library/2-11.1/mypackage after running R CMD build and R CMD
> INSTALL.
> I've experimented with the options --binary and --use-zip-data but
> without
> luck.
>
> I think I don't understand the "optional directory" procedure
in
> general
> yet: don't I just need to dump stuff in /data, /inst/doc, /exec etc.
> and
> have them "transferred" (sorry, I don't know a better word)
to the
> tar.gz
> and eventually to the installed package?
>
> Regards,
> Janko
>
> > -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 14. Oktober 2010 21:18
> > An: Janko Thyson
> > Cc: r-devel at r-project. org
> > Betreff: Re: [Rd] Including data in packages
> >
> >
> > On 14 October 2010 at 21:06, Janko Thyson wrote:
> > | The thing is that I don't understand how the actual
'transfer'
> > happens when
> > | the package is build and installed. Where do the objects
'live'
> after
> > | installation and how can I access them after firing
> > library(mypackage)? For
> > | example, there is a 'data' directory for package
'tm'
> > | (R_HOME/R-2.11.1/library/tm) but such a directory is missing even
> if
> > I chose
> > | option 3) (as stated above) to get my data included. Also, how can
> I
> > | actually execute the lazyload?
> >
> > If in doubt, copy existing packages, preferably recommended ones:
> >
> > edd at max:~/src/debian/CRAN$ find -type d -name data | sort
> > ./boot-1.2.42/data
> > ./boot-1.2.43/data
> > ./car-2.0-2/data
> > ./cluster-1.13.1/data
> > ./effects-2.0.10/data
> > ./fEcofin-290.76/data
> > ./fExtremes-2100.77/data
> > ./fGarch-2110.80/data
> > ./fImport-2110.79/data
> > ./fPortfolio-2110.79/data
> > ./gdata-2.8.0/data
> > ./gplots-2.8.0/data
> > ./gtools-2.6.2/data
> > ./lattice-0.19-11/data
> > ./lattice-0.19-13/data
> > ./latticeExtra-0.6-14/data
> > ./lme4-0.999375-35/data
> > ./lmtest-0.9.27/data
> > ./MASS-7.3-7/data
> > ./Matrix-0.999375-44/data
> > ./misc3d-0.7-1/data
> > ./multcomp-1.2-3/data
> > ./nlme-3.1.96/data
> > ./nlme-3.1.97/data
> > ./nws-2.0.0.3/data
> > ./rggobi-2.1.16/data
> > ./robustbase-0.5-0-1/data
> > ./rpart-3.1.46/data
> > ./sandwich-2.2-6/data
> > ./sm-2.2-4.1/data
> > ./sn-0.4-16/data
> > ./strucchange-1.4-1/data
> > ./strucchange-1.4-2/data
> > ./survival-2.35-8/data
> > ./timeSeries-2120.89/data
> > ./tseries-0.10-22/data
> > ./urca-1.2-4/data
> > edd at max:~/src/debian/CRAN$
> >
> > The vote is clearly in favour of data/ over inst/data.
> >
> > Hth, Dirk
> >
> > --
> > Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
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