On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 10:33 AM, Simon Knapp <sleepingw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I am building a package for a client to help them create and perform > analyses against netcdf files which contain 'a temporal stack' of > grids. > > For my examples and test cases, I create an example dataset in code > (as this is a lot more space efficient than providing raw data). The > code creates a netcdf file in tempdir() and an object of class 'ncdf' > in the global namespace. I have placed the code in a .R file in the > data directory of my package and 'load' it with a call to data().
Why not just put the function that generates the data file into the usual place (/R/ folder) and document it so that the user knows to run 'sampledata=makeSampleNCDF()' before doing things that need it? Trying to put executable code into the data folder does seem a bit perverse! Barry ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel