Dear Dirk and Berry, Thanks a lot for your input and for pointing me to the very nice article on the R Journal. It seems to me that hosting the data via GitHub and
> El 28 abr 2021, a las 0:04, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> escribió: > > > ******************* > This email originates from outside Imperial. Do not click on links and > attachments unless you recognise the sender. > If you trust the sender, add them to your safe senders list > https://spam.ic.ac.uk/SpamConsole/Senders.aspx to disable email stamping for > this address. > ******************* > > On 27 April 2021 at 10:26, Ayala Hernandez, Rafael wrote: > | I am in the process of including a large update for my package asteRisk, > that will require the usage of large data files (amounting in total to ~100 > MB). > | > | Given the CRAN package size limits of 5 MB, I am wondering what is the > preferred solution in these cases? I have read multiple possibilities, such > as requesting to CRAN to host a data-only package that would be updated very > infrequently, or hosting the data in another repository and providing > functions in the main package to retrieve the required files. > > In case you have not seen it yet, the R Journal article Brooke and I wrote a > few years ago covers exactly this use case, and walks through how to cover it > in a fairly detailed way. > > https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-026/index.html > > @article{RJ-2017-026, > author = {G. Brooke Anderson and Dirk Eddelbuettel}, > title = {{Hosting Data Packages via drat: A Case Study with Hurricane > Exposure Data}}, > year = {2017}, > journal = {{The R Journal}}, > doi = {10.32614/RJ-2017-026}, > url = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2017-026}, > pages = {486--497}, > volume = {9}, > number = {1} > } > > Hope this helps, Dirk > > -- > https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
