R devel - Dec 2017 - data compression in a package

The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence:
 ?? "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files)
"

The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly what
should I be
doing??? xz compression?

Terry T.

On 29 December 2017 at 07:23, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
| The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence:
|  ?? "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda files)
"
| 
| The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly what
should I be
| doing??? xz compression?

See help(save) and its ilk -- compression is on by default. So just sit back
and revel in how yet another task is already taken care of by R.

Dirk

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On 12/29/2017 07:34 AM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> 
> On 29 December 2017 at 07:23, Therneau, Terry M., Ph.D. wrote:
> | The submission guide has the following cryptic (to me) sentence:
> |  ?? "Reasonable compression should be used for data (not just .rda
files) "
> |
> | The survival pacakge has a fairly large number of data files --- exactly
what should I be
> | doing??? xz compression?
> 
> See help(save) and its ilk -- compression is on by default. So just sit
back
> and revel in how yet another task is already taken care of by R.
> 
> Dirk
> 
Ah -just a grammar issue.  I was reading it as "do good compression for
your rda files and
everthing else too", and your interpretation is "remember the other
data (not just rda
which is already taken care of)."  The survival package has about 2M of
.rda files and
2.2M of vignettes so I'm still under the 5M boundary, but R CMD check nags
about it.

Terry T.