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2018 Mar 29
2
Is it good practice to have a package depend on Rtools(for unziping of .7z and.rar files)? Crab legal?
I created this package,
https://github.com/lucasmation/microdadosBrasil
which we are preparing for Cran submission. The package facilitates
downloading and reading most of the microdatasets (household surveys,
Census, etc). For each dataset it:
(a) downloads the data from the data providers
(b) "unzip" the necessary files
(c) imports the data into R.
For (b), some of the datasets come in .7z and .rar format which ideally
the package should unzip (or whatever the correct...
2018 Mar 29
0
Is it good practice to have a package depend on Rtools(for unziping of .7z and.rar files)? Crab legal?
...n Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 6:56 AM, Lucas Ferreira Mation
<lucasmation at gmail.com> wrote:
> I created this package,
>
> https://github.com/lucasmation/microdadosBrasil
>
> which we are preparing for Cran submission. The package facilitates
> downloading and reading most of the microdatasets (household surveys,
> Census, etc). For each dataset it:
>
> (a) downloads the data from the data providers
> (b) "unzip" the necessary files
> (c) imports the data into R.
>
> For (b), some of the datasets come in .7z and .rar format which ideally
> the package...