Further to Joris' email, the help page of data() is very informative. If the reason for wishing to combine the datasets together is so that they can be made available in a single command, an option might be to create an R source file which loads all datasets, thus giving this option without withdrawing the possibility for loading the individual datasets.
Georgi Boshnakov -----Original Message----- From: R-package-devel [mailto:r-package-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of Joris Meys Sent: 05 December 2018 16:22 To: li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk Cc: R Package Development Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Can I put my small data-sets into one .rda file in my CRAN package? Hi Michael, in the data() function you have to use the name of the rda file, not the name of the dataset you need. So say you have the datasets validity and data2 in a file called alldata.rda, you need to do: data(alldata) and that will make both validity and data2 available to the user. imho it only makes sense to combine data in one .rda file when they're also related (for example an dataset with species and the similarity matrix for those species). Hope this helps Cheers Joris On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 4:19 PM Michael Dewey <li...@dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > At the moment my package (metap) has a number of small data-sets each as > a separate .rda file. It works fine. I thought it would be neater to put > them all into one file which I called data.rda (original choice of name > there). > > Now when I do R CMD build metap > it fails when trying to build the vignette when that executes > data(validity) > where validity is contained in data.rda. > > I cannot find anything in writing R extensions which explicitly forbids > this but equally nothing which explicitly permits it. Am I missing > something? Obviously this is not an important problem and as the title > says the solution should work on CRAN too. > > -- > Michael > http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > -- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Department of Data Analysis and Mathematical Modelling Ghent University Coupure Links 653, B-9000 Gent (Belgium) <https://maps.google.com/?q=Coupure+links+653,%C2%A0B-9000+Gent,%C2%A0Belgium&entry=gmail&source=g> tel: +32 (0)9 264 61 79 ----------- Biowiskundedagen 2017-2018 http://www.biowiskundedagen.ugent.be/ ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
