And if the user hits "yes", the package rappdirs may be useful to get an appropriate place to save that data.
Iñaki On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 14:45, Martin Maechler <maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch> wrote: > > >>>>> Sigbert Klinke > >>>>> on Thu, 17 Oct 2019 14:29:54 +0200 writes: > > > Hi, > > I'am developing a package that circumvents the R package size limitation > > for data sets. For this I store the data set in the internet (currently > > GitHub) and download if it is requested. > > > To avoid unnecessary downloads and internet connections I create a > > directory in the users home directory to store the data there. However, > > this violates the "CRAN Repository Policy" which says > > > - Packages should not write in the user’s home filespace (including > > clipboards), nor anywhere else on the file system apart from the R > > session’s temporary directory (or during installation in the location > > pointed to by TMPDIR: and such usage should be cleaned up). > > > Do I have any chance to get the package to CRAN, if I submit it? > > > Best Sigbert > > > https://hu.berlin/sk > > https://hu.berlin/mmstat3 > > > I you *prompt* the user about writing, i.e., ask them explicitly > if <directory> is fine and only if "yes", you write there, > otherwise try to write to tempdir() then your package is fine, > otherwise it is not, i.e, > "not okay" according to many, even if *not* on CRAN.. > > Best, > Martin > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel -- Iñaki Úcar ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
