On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
>
> Examples are the makecdfenv und matchprobes packages, part of which I
> wrote. They deal with data formats that are external to R, namely vendor
> (Affymetrix) specific file formats, and provide tools for importing these
> data into R. For the examples / vignettes, I need to provide example data
> files. Up to now I am putting them into the data directory, and access
> them with
>
> specializedImportFunction(file.path(.path.package("matchprobes"),
> "data", "HG-U95Av2_probe_tab.gz"), ...)
>
> Is this considered offensive to the R package structure? Whereelse to put
> data that comes in specialized (not .rda, .txt, .csv) formats?
It is broken, as Windows users have found. Please use a different
installation directory, as in my earlier reply, or make
specializedImportFunction() handle zipped data directories.
I have been proposing, and may implement as soon as 1.9.0, to process all
the data directory at install time to .rda files in a database (details
depend on Luke's final choice of implementation) which is load-on-demand
and perhaps unload if not currently used. So it not a good idea to use
the data directory for files other than those to be accessed by data().
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Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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