On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:47:17PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> tor, 23 07 2009 kl. 13:38 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:40:46PM +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > > tor, 23 07 2009 kl. 12:32 +0200, skrev Thomas Weber:
> > > > the statistics package contains a few data files in a test/ directory.
> > > > Shouldn't these files be part of the tarball, i.e. moved into inst/ ?
> > > > Without them, tests for e.g. caseread.m fail.
> > >
> > > I think we should have some way of allowing data to be shipped along
> > > with packages. I would like to distribute a few images with the 'image'
> > > package that I could use in demos. Right now I'm using synthetic images,
> > > which is really boring.
> > >
> > > Perhaps packages should be allowed to have a 'data' directory along with
> > > 'inst' and 'doc'? I think this would be better than storing both code
> > > and data in the same directory.
> >
> > Keep in mind that the code must be able to find the files. So, if you
> > want a separate directory, I'd prefer a sub-directory of inst/.
>
> I wouldn't object to having a 'inst/data' directory, but is that easier
> to locate from within the code?
I find
fopen('data/filename');
simpler than
fopen('../data/filename');
Okay, I admit it: a weak argument :)
Thomas
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