R help - Jun 2008 - how to save an updated dataset

I wrote a package which includes a number of genome sequencing project
statistics on the web like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/lproks.cgi. I
included some generic functions to summarize, plot, and update the tables
with the most recent version

data(lproks)   
update(lproks)   
 [1] "lproks successfully updated, 7 new genomes added"

I usually save the dataset back to my package data directory...

save(lproks, file="/path/to/genomes/data/lproks.rda")

but I may one day put the package on CRAN (or BioConductor), so now I need
to know where the package/data directory is located, if the user has
permission to save to that directory, and probably some other complications
I'm missing.  Any suggestions?  

Thanks,
Chris Stubben

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I too am looking to do the same thing. Anyone have any insight as to this can
be done?

Thanks,
Jason



Chris Stubben wrote:
> 
> I wrote a package which includes a number of genome sequencing project
> statistics on the web like http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/lproks.cgi.
> I included some generic functions to summarize, plot, and update the
> tables with the most recent version
> 
> data(lproks)   
> update(lproks)   
>  [1] "lproks successfully updated, 7 new genomes added"
> 
> I usually save the dataset back to my package data directory...
> 
> save(lproks, file="/path/to/genomes/data/lproks.rda")
> 
> but I may one day put the package on CRAN (or BioConductor), so now I need
> to know where the package/data directory is located, if the user has
> permission to save to that directory, and probably some other
> complications I'm missing.  Any suggestions?  
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris Stubben
> 
> 
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