On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Paul Gilbert wrote: > Jeff Gentry wrote: > > >... > >The issue that Duncan suggested I raise is whether or not it should be > >considered accepted behaviour for a package author to be accessing files > >in <pkg>\data (at this time I don't know the reasoning behind the specific > >example here, I just know that that's what they've done) or if this should > >be considered a Bad Thing. > > > I do this in some instances where I have data in a format not supported > by data(), for example, database files that are used by package > programs or tests (but I have always wondered if it is "the right" thing > to do). If it is considered a Bad Thing then there needs to be another > location for files like this, perhaps inst/data or something like that.
inst/data will get copied into data in the installed version. We would prefer you used inst/mydata copied to mydata (for some value of `mydata' != `data'), as package spatial does. This allows the QC tools to check out aspects of the installed data directory unhindered. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
