On 12/03/2018 6:26 PM, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal wrote:
Hi All:
Recently there was a proper admonishment to a developer that it is bad etiquette writing
to a user's home directory, and for temporary files use the functions tempdir() and
tempfile(). I am working on a new package (presently on Github) that downloads data from
a remote server, reads the data into R, but I would like to save that file for the user
to access later if they so desire. Saving to the "temp directory" is not a
good option for that, want to put it somewhere where the user can easily find it. What
is the proper etiquette for this? Even if I provide an argument for the user to specify
the location to save the file, I should provide a default location.
Why not provide an argument whose default is something given by tempfile()?
Duncan Murdoch
Any suggestions appreciated.
-Roy
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