On 16/02/2015 6:37 AM, Ulrike Grömping wrote:
> Dear helpeRs,
>
> I have some png files in the inst/extdata directory of a package (e.g.,
> man.png), and I want to provide character strings containing the paths to
> these files; of course, these path strings have to depend on the individual
> installation. So far, I have written a function that - if called - writes
> the correct strings to the global environment, but that is not CRAN
> compatible.
The system.file() function does this. For example, if your package
named foo contains inst/fig/man.png, you would use
system.file("fig/man.png", package="foo").
>
> Ideally, I want the package namespace to export these text strings. I have
> played with .onLoad without luck. I do not have a good understanding of
> which hook is for which purpose. How can I go about this?
Rather than exporting the strings, it's easier to export a function that
produces the strings, e.g.
fig <- function(name) system.file(file.path("fig", name), package="foo")
to be called as
fig("man.png")
Duncan Murdoch
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