Dear R community, I'm in the process of writing a package. One of the functions reads a whole ascii file, full of data:
> SYMINFO <- scan("/file/full/of/data.txt",what="character",sep="\n",quiet=TRUE) SYMINFO is now an array character with roughly 14000 elements. I thought the best way to use this file in the package was to list it, together with the rest of useful functions, in the list= field of package.skeleton. This way, a "SYMINFO.rda" is created in the data directory of the new package. It can, then, be used by all functons needing it through a data(SYMINFO) line. I have created and installed the package and things work. But I would like to make SYMINFO invisible to users. If I call SYMINFO as .SYMINFO, the functions needing this bit of data do not work anymore, even if I replaced data(SYMINFO) with data(.SYMINFO) Does anyone have ideas why this is happening? Would you handle the whole process differently? Kind regards, J Dr James Foadi PhD Membrane Protein Laboratory (MPL) Diamond Light Source Ltd Diamond House Harewell Science and Innovation Campus Chilton, Didcot Oxfordshire OX11 0DE Email : james.fo...@diamond.ac.uk Alt Email: j.fo...@imperial.ac.uk -- This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential...{{dropped:8}} ______________________________________________ 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.