R help - Aug 2004 - place 4 ini files

Dear expeRts,

I collect some lab specific functions for a package.
Some of this functions need initial data 
(ini files written in R-code). My question is:
Where is the place in the package structure for such files; 
how to load the files?
I think something like:

source(paste(R.home(),"/library/__pkg__/data/__.ini.R",
sep=""))

looks a bit clumsy.
I haven't find something about this 
in the "writing R extensions".

Regards
Thomas 

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I think was better for you to save data
with save("your.ini.RData") and use load("your.ini.RData")
to load it.
Best!
A.S.

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Alessandro Semeria
Models and Simulations Laboratory
Montecatini Environmental Research Center (Edison Group),
Via Ciro Menotti 48,
48023 Marina di Ravenna (RA), Italy
Tel. +39 544 536811
Fax. +39 544 538663
E-mail: alessandro.semeria at cramont.it

Please do read what "writing R extensions" says about the data
directory.
This is not a correct use of that directory, and may well fail in the next 
release.

I suggest you install them in an ini directory, by putting them in 
inst/ini in the package sources.

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 Thomas.Bock at ptb.de wrote:
> I collect some lab specific functions for a package.
> Some of this functions need initial data 
> (ini files written in R-code). My question is:
> Where is the place in the package structure for such files; 
> how to load the files?
> I think something like:
> 
> source(paste(R.home(),"/library/__pkg__/data/__.ini.R",
sep=""))
That makes assumptions about where a package is installed.  Use 
system.file(), e.g.

source(system.file("ini", "foo_ini.R",
package="__pkg__"))
> looks a bit clumsy.
> I haven't find something about this 
> in the "writing R extensions".
See the discussion of `inst'.

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