You can use system.file to fine the package root, then data file path relative to this. For example system.file(package = "stats") # The root of package 'stats'
See ?system.file On 6 February 2013 22:02, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On Feb 4, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > >> The bio.infer package contains a data frame >> /usr/lib/R/library/bio.infer/data/itis.ttable.rda that needs to be modified. >> After loading the bio.infer package and attaching the data frame with the >> data() function, I wrote the data frame to a text file. >> >> After adding another row to the data frame I applied read.table() to >> create a data frame, but it's in my pwd, not the R library data subdirectory >> for the bio.infer package. >> >> What is the R function to copy/save/write either the text file or the >> local copy of itis.ttable to >> /usr/lib/R/library/bio.infer/data/itis.ttable.rda? > > Wouldn't this just be: > > save(itis.table, file="/usr/lib/R/library/bio.infer/data/itis.ttable.rda") > > ???? > > -- > > David Winsemius > Alameda, CA, USA > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.