As I understand it, this would allow ftable format to be used (more easily than at present) for datasets placed in the "data" subdirectory of packages. And that would be a good thing? (It would also make the advice given in Writing R Extensions,
Currently, data files can have one of three types as indicated by their extension: plain R code (.R or .r), tables (.tab, .txt, or .csv)...clearer in the sense that "table" could be read to mean the same thing as it does in other parts of R.)
David
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